63 Quotes about Ignorant @Quotio

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Aeschylus

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

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

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Seneca

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
Saint Jerome

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

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

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.
Jeff Bishop

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
William Mckinley

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

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; For the beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.
Aristippus

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
Ralph Nader

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.
Muslih uddin Sadi

I said it to Drew in my brash, young, ignorant way, I don't know who it is know, but I know who will be in about 10 years.
Michael Irvin

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken.
Japanese Proverb

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
Hannibal

The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel.
Guru Gobind Singh

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

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

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

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant.
Vietnamese Proverb

Ten years ago, we would have been blissfully ignorant.
Donald Yeomans

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
John Abbott

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Miguel de Unamuno

It's amazing how ignorant a person can be, but there's something about our ears that ends up telling us some truths.
David Harrington

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
Simón Bolívar

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?
Sean Hannity

I said I _liked_ being half-educated; you were so much more _surprised_at everything when you were ignorant.
Gerald Durrell

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

Life is easier is when you are ignorant. Closing your eyes to the problems allows people to become sicker and sicker.
Nancy Kneeland

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.
Mark Twain

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson

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

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
V. S. Naipaul

I have no hate for you. I can't hate an animal, for they're ignorant, dumb and blind.
David Graham

We were in disbelief that someone would be that ignorant to do something so flagrant in violation of the law.
James Cook

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
Graham Greene

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.
Stephen Charnock

You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public.
Joe Nickell

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

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Natalie Goldberg

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

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
Charley Reese

I must admit that I'm quite ignorant about that.
Richard Kohn

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.
Jean de La Fontaine

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