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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. -- Benjamin Franklin
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. -- V. S. Naipaul
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so. -- Ronald Reagan
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed. -- Anna Quindlen
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. -- George Eliot
Ignorant power is a bane! -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. -- Pythagoras
Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. -- Cleanthes
It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant. -- Pythagoras
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. -- Vernon Howard
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. -- Sophocles
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. -- Edward Gibbon
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. -- Sophocles
Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse. -- W. C. Sellar
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -- Robert Browning
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. -- Will Rogers
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. -- William Gibbs McAdoo
Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it. -- Publilius Syrus
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. -- Anatole France
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
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. -- Benjamin Franklin
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -- Bernard Berenson
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. -- Confucius
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. -- Sun Tzu
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. -- Harriet Tubman
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. -- Isaac Asimov
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. -- Henry Adams
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. -- Horace Mann
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. -- Don Herold
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. -- Victor Hugo
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. -- Plato
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. -- Thomas Jefferson
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. -- Aleister Crowley
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. -- James Monroe
I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it. -- Rick Pitino
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. -- Epictetus
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you. -- Julian Assange
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever. -- Muhammad Iqbal
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. -- Giacomo Casanova
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. -- Susan Estrich
In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had. -- Mark Twain
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. -- Charles Darwin
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. -- Mark Twain
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. -- Anne Bronte
It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects. -- Nikola Tesla
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I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. -- Sir Mix-a-Lot
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. -- Marlon Wayans
Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. -- Annie Besant
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. -- Bill Maher
Bullies are just ignorant. -- Josh Hutcherson
Tis the ignorant who boast. -- Elisabeth of Wied
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The ignorant man never enjoys. -- Swami Vivekananda
People are bloody ignorant apes. -- Samuel Beckett
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant. -- Richard Dawkins
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We're all ignorant, just about different stuff. -- Will Rogers
Violence is a tool of the ignorant. -- Flip Wilson
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant -- William Saroyan
Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole. -- Richard Ford
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers. -- Lord Chesterfield
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Most fools think they are only ignorant. -- Benjamin Franklin
You can't keep an ignorant population healthy. -- Joycelyn Elders
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. -- Avicenna
All men are ignorant, just on different subjects. -- Mark Twain
it is always difficult to impress the ignorant. -- Lionel Shriver
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. -- Janis Ian
To say I'm ignorant only proves your ignorance. -- Behdad Sami
We are all ignorant; just about different things. -- Mark Twain
All men are ignorant, just in different fields. -- Albert Einstein
You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects. -- Will Rogers
Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here. -- Plato
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man -- George Puttenham
Being both stupid and ignorant is an accomplishment. -- Gene Weingarten
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. -- Victor Hugo
I try to be funny and not ignorant. -- Kevin Hart
I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid! -- Sissy Spacek
I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy! -- Patty Andrews
It is only the ignorant who despise education. -- Publilius Syrus
no people can be both ignorant and free. -- Thomas Jefferson
The only death I fear is dying ignorant. -- Steven Erikson
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant! -- Sister Souljah
it is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant ... -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -- Voltaire
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned. -- Leigh Brackett
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. -- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! -- Mark Twain
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others. -- Thiruvalluvar
Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds. -- Gautama Buddha
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. -- Cesare Lombroso
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand -- Cesare Lombroso
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. -- Aeschylus
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. -- Maurice Sendak
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor. -- Elfriede Jelinek
A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant. -- Stephen Charnock
I was truly ignorant about art before the film. -- Claire Forlani
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. -- William McKinley
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects. -- Will Rogers
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. -- Seneca the Younger
An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe. -- Brian Herbert
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant. -- John Berger
The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight. -- Will Rogers
No lawyer can afford to be ignorant of the Bible. -- Rufus Choate
I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes. -- Gretchen Wilson
You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free. -- Rumi
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant. -- Miguel de Unamuno
Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant. -- Dov Davidoff
To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge. -- Zhuangzi

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