Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Norm MacDonald

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

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.

Plato

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

John Berger

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

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.

Helen Mirren

I met with Hitchcock when I was a very, very young actress just starting out and he was making 'Frenzy' in London and I was sent along to meet with him. He was very, very unimpressed with me and I have to say, I was rather unimpressed with him - but only because I was an arrogant, ignorant young actress.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

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.

Pythagoras

Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant.

Pythagoras

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Steven Erikson

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

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.

Simone Elkeles

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Simone Elkeles

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

Timothy Zahn

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Lewis Thomas

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Shahrukh Khan

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Kevin Hart

I try to be funny and not ignorant.