Ignorant Quotes - page 24

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark. (William Cavendish)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. View quote
William G. McAdoo
Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. View quote
Nancy Garden
We are merely the instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
You have to examine each word and ask yourself, "Is that the right word for that?" - the integrity and the courage of the individual to speak his own truth and not to go along with the crowd, yet not making others seem ignorant. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. View quote
Dante Alighieri
Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true. View quote
Queen Latifah
The most ignorant are the most conceited. View quote
Horace Mann
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like. View quote
David Sedaris
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. View quote
John Adams
A car coughed, starting. Morning softly Melting the air, lifted the half-covered chair From underseas, kindled the looking-glass, Distinguished the dresser and the white wall. The bird called tentatively, whistled, called, Bubbled and whistled, so! Perplexed, still wet With sleep, affectionate, hungry and cold. So, so, O son of man, the ignorant night, the travail Of early morning, the mystery of the beginning Again and again, while history is unforgiven. (Delmore Schwartz)
It is a strange, wild jurisdiction, where the jurors are judges both of law and fact, and ignorant country fellows2 are to determine the nicest points of law. View quote
John Eardley Wilmot
Funny sort of science! I guess they were pretty ignorant in those days. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
My privilege is to be spectator of my life drama, to be fully conscious of the tragi-comedy of my own destiny, and, more than that, to be in the secret of the tragi-comic itself, that is to say, to be unable to take my illusions seriously, to see myself, so to speak, from the theater on the stage, or to be like a man looking from beyond the tomb into existence. I feel myself forced to feign a particular interest in my individual part, while all the time I am living in the confidence of the poet who is playing with all these agents which seem so important, and knows all that they are ignorant of. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties. View quote
Maimonides
Those who are ignorant and perverse in their thought are constantly in trouble and pain, because they cannot get as much of the superfluous things as a certain other person possesses. View quote
Maimonides
The error of the ignorant goes so far as to say that God's power is insufficient, because he has given to this Universe the properties which they imagine cause these great evils, and which do not help all evil-disposed persons to obtain the evil which they seek, and to bring their evil souls to the aim of their desires, though these, as we have shown, are really without limit. View quote
Maimonides
A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth. View quote
James Bovard
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission. View quote
James Bovard
One, knowing the duties of man and being ignorant of his impotence, is lost in presumption. View quote
Blaise Pascal
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. (Henry David Thoreau)
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. View quote
George Eliot
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant. View quote
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. View quote
Juan Cole
[Nehru's] animus against Hinduism was derived from his love for Communism. He knew next to nothing about Buddhism; the only reason be hailed it as well as its hero, Ashoka, was that in his perception Buddhism was a 'revolt' against 'reactionary' Brahminism. Had he known the truth about Buddhism, he would have dropped it like a hot potato. The same psychology made him fall for Islam. Otherwise he was equally ignorant of, and equally indifferent to all religions. The Secularism which he espoused was not borrowed from the modem West. For him, it was only a smokescreen for Hindu-baiting. The fashion was picked up fast by a servile intelligentsia and became a national cult. View quote
Sita Ram Goel