Ignorant Quotes - page 2

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. (Clarence Darrow)
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool. View quote
Molière
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. View quote
Sophocles
Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. View quote
Jane Smiley
Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty. View quote
Fisher Ames
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. View quote
Cicero
Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men. (W. E. B. Du Bois)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
It is admirable to consider how many Millions of People come into, and go out of the World, Ignorant of themselves, and of the World they have lived in. View quote
William Penn
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing. View quote
Frances Burney
Witchcraft to the ignorant,.... Simple science to the learned. View quote
Leigh Brackett
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. View quote
Harlan Ellison
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. View quote
Kenneth Clark
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. (Plutarch)
The only death I fear is dying ignorant. View quote
Steven Erikson
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art. View quote
Pablo Picasso
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. View quote
Elizabeth I of England