Ignorant Quotes

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter. (Confucius)
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. View quote
Aeschylus
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. View quote
Will Rogers
I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him. View quote
Galileo Galilei
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. View quote
Will Rogers
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. View quote
Sydney Smith
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. View quote
Clarence Darrow
It is only the ignorant that despise education. View quote
Publilius Syrus
We're all ignorant, just about different stuff. View quote
Will Rogers
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. (Mark Twain)
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. View quote
John Adams
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. View quote
Cicero
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. View quote
William Saroyan
I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant. View quote
Gerald Durrell
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. (Bertrand Russell)
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. View quote
Bernard Berenson
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. View quote
Publilius Syrus
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . View quote
Anne Brontë