Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

John Podhoretz

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

Tom DeLay

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

Sister Souljah

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

Socrates

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

Plato

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Nicolaus Copernicus

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

The ignorant ones do not recognize their Creator.

Paulo Freire

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

Peter Drucker

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Marisha Pessl

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Norm MacDonald

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

John Berger

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

Lucy Larcom

Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.

Leo Strauss

By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing for us, or the one thing needful, is quest for knowledge of the most important things or quest for wisdom.

Jim Rohn

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Maimonides

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

Edward Bond

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

Jonah Goldberg

Bill Maher is anything but an impartial host. He sucks up to Hollywood liberals because A) he needs to get them back on the show, B) he usually agrees with them, and C) they tend to be wildly ignorant.

Joyce Carol Oates

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.

Richard Dawkins

Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.

Richard Baxter

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Tricia Helfer

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.

Plotinus

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Thomas Paine

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Huxley

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Robert M. Hutchins

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Richard Ford

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

Robert Green Ingersoll

We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

Rufus Choate

No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

Walter Cronkite

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.