Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. Votes: 4
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIgnorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. Votes: 4
V. S. NaipaulIgnorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. Votes: 3
Jennifer ChiaveriniIgnorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Votes: 3
SophoclesIgnorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. Votes: 3
SophoclesIgnorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. Votes: 3
Edward GibbonSand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanI have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Votes: 2
Galileo GalileiI am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. Votes: 2
Marcus Tullius CiceroTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Votes: 2
Benjamin DisraeliI grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Votes: 2
Harriet TubmanTo surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. Votes: 2
Isaac AsimovIt takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. Votes: 2
Don HeroldThe animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Votes: 2
Victor HugoUnder the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. Votes: 0
Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de CondorcetObscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellKeeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. Votes: 0
Susie BrightIf you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments. Votes: 0
Herbert V. ProchnowBodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsStill how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! Votes: 0
Jean-Baptiste SayPeople who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. Votes: 0
Rick BraggIf you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. Votes: 0
George CarlinDefinitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant. Votes: 0
Idries ShahUntil you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMarriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant. Votes: 0
Daniel J. BoorstinTalking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanHow can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinA good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. Votes: 0
Ann AguirreObstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. Votes: 0
AristotleWe are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary Votes: 0
Richard BaxterYou journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. Votes: 0
Marisha PesslAmericans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. Votes: 0
Gore VidalBut revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left. Votes: 0
Tammy BruceMarriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonA learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead. Votes: 0
Muhammad JafarLuck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. Votes: 0
Timothy ZahnWe are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened. Votes: 0
Walter CronkiteA wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Votes: 0
Grantland RiceIf I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? Votes: 0
Ibn TaymiyyahThe most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another. Votes: 0
Albert CamusEven the ignorant may appear very worthy,If they keep silent before the learned. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarIt seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past. Votes: 0
Adora SvitakThey that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss. Votes: 0
Ryan MillerThe ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners. Votes: 0
Mark TwainEvery single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanA theme is always necessary, a plain, simple, unadorned theme to confuse the ignorant. Votes: 0
Lillian HellmanThe intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPerhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusWhatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. Votes: 0
Rudyard KiplingWe are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. Votes: 0
Allan BloomPhilosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Votes: 0
Iris MurdochWhat we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. Votes: 0
Pierre-Simon LaplaceEve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner. Votes: 0
Geoffrey SampsonNot every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaA racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him. Votes: 0
Alaa Al AswanyI think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant. Votes: 0
Shirley MacLaineWe are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinPrivate Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickMy greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. Votes: 0
Peter DruckerNothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineI did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. Votes: 0
Bob UeckerA man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated. Votes: 0
Robert HenriThe ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel Votes: 0
Guru Gobind SinghAn ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaA newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThat we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant. Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeTravel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Votes: 0
Joe AbercrombieWhen proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. Votes: 0
Ali ibn Abi TalibReverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding. Votes: 0
Wendell BerryAppreciation and Honor bestowed those, who were fleeting. Folks are ignorant, It's a human Psych ! Votes: 0
Pushkar SarafThe scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanWe must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. Votes: 0
John Henry NewmanLet me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareA man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art Votes: 0
William BlakeOnly those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? Votes: 0
Orson F. WhitneyI live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why. Votes: 0
Truman Capoteits not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored Votes: 0
Adnan SafiNobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat. Votes: 0
SocratesAnimals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. Votes: 0
Stephen KingEducate your consciounse not be ignorant, for out of ignorance comes misery in it's greatest form. Votes: 0
Wayne ChirisaI am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowI would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Votes: 0
EuripidesIt is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasLike most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past. Votes: 0
Jane SmileyA pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. Votes: 0
Jean Antoine Petit-SennThe chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillA lonely tree in the desert shares the same fate with the wise man amongst the ignorant! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanEither grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. Votes: 0
Elif SafakThe more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you. Votes: 0
Rush LimbaughIf you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger. Votes: 0
Austin O'MalleyAn ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. Votes: 0
Hendrik Willem van LoonHe who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThose who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know. Votes: 0
ThiruvalluvarThat there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid. Votes: 0
Rick PitinoWhatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. Votes: 0
Walter CronkiteI was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. Votes: 0
FleaIn such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th' ignorant More learned than the ears. Votes: 0
William ShakespearePrejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant. Votes: 0
Lydia M. ChildFew moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant. Votes: 0
Wes FeslerTo be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence. Votes: 0
David O. McKayPeople don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. Votes: 0
Kenyon MartinI was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop. Votes: 0
Rick YanceyAmericans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't. Votes: 0
Jonah GoldbergI was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. Votes: 0
Joe NamathWhat they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. Votes: 0
Jonathan SwiftA dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanTo ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame. Votes: 0
Kano JigoroIt doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you. Votes: 0
K.J. ParkerThe brillant person who does not take heed is the same as the ignorant who does not know. Votes: 0
Debra E. JohnsonI would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant. Votes: 0
George Armstrong CusterI could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. Votes: 0
Anthony BourdainWe are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them. Votes: 0
Francis PicabiaThose who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonThe wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal? Votes: 0
Saib TabriziSometimes I look [ on trolls on Twitter], but even one ignorant comment can make me go, "Oh god." Votes: 0
Jen KirkmanWhen you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge. Votes: 0
ConfuciusWhen you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. Votes: 0
Sun TzuThe most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Votes: 0
Lewis ThomasThe greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible. Votes: 0
J. Vernon McGeeWe are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesWho makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaI do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowO visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. Votes: 0
John Miltonmost people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. Votes: 0
Mary McCarthyI'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant. Votes: 0
Stephen ColbertIt would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building. Votes: 0
K. Pattabhi JoisWhy does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant. Votes: 0
Vladimir PutinConceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. Votes: 0
Isabel AllendeBurnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurHave faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaNo people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherSo I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person. Votes: 0
Chad HugoThe poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardRich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherWe are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say Votes: 0
G. L. S. ShackleA man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'. Votes: 0
Anne HathawayBeing ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Votes: 4 Benjamin Franklin
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. Votes: 1 Aeschylus
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Votes: 1 Victor Hugo
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. Votes: 1 G. M. Trevelyan
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. Votes: 2 Domenico Dolce
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Votes: 1 Sydney Smith