Quotes of Ignorant - somelinesforyou

“ 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. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ”

- Will Rogers

“ It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. ”

- William G. McAdoo

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

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ”

- Bertrand Russell

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

- John Simon

“ Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. ”

- Natalie Goldberg

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

- Clarence Darrow

“ A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. ”

- Jean Baptiste Moliere

“ Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Plotinus

“ I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ 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. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated. ”

- Sri Ramakrishna

“ Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ 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

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

- Jonathan Swift

“ It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. ”

- Alec Bourne

“ We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. ”

- The Metro Para pledge

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

- Saadi

“ 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

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

- Galileo Galilei

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Bernard Berenson

“ To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? ”

- Cicero

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

- Sophocles

“ Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it. ”

- Unknown

“ He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit. ”

- Plato

“ I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day. ”

- Lucius C. Falkland
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