Ignorant Quotes

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Bullies are just ignorant.

When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.

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

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

Ignore the ignorant.

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

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

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.