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  • I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people. -- Tinie Tempah
  • The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. -- Kenneth Clark
  • Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. -- Michael Moore
  • Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. -- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
  • An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. -- Simon Bolivar
  • Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. -- Jennifer Chiaverini
  • A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead. -- Muhammad Jafar
  • Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. -- Vernon Howard
  • I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves. -- Flea
  • Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession. -- Gautama Buddha
  • America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded. -- Kurt Cobain
  • I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in. -- Garson Kanin
  • I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. -- Hasan M. Elahi
  • There are ignorant priests and ignorant people, who are all too ready to cry sorcery if a woman is only a little wiser than they are! -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
  • Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. -- Mark Twain
  • The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people. -- Voltaire
  • Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter. -- Gene Wolfe
  • I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer. -- Wilbur Smith
  • Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off. -- Winston Churchill
  • Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king.. its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. -- Nikola Tesla
  • Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and money talks with an eloquence Shakespeare could only envy. Ignorant people don't understand The Federalist Papers, but they understand government checks with their names on them. -- Joseph Sobran
  • The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal. -- Oscar Wilde
  • People are bloody ignorant apes. -- Samuel Beckett
  • The most dangerous people are the ignorant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • no people can be both ignorant and free. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. -- Janis Ian
  • People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childre -- Daniel C. Dennett
  • People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. -- Rob Reiner
  • Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive. -- Susie Bright
  • People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid. -- Charley Reese
  • People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. -- Ibn Khaldun
  • It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence. -- George Orwell
  • People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant. -- Rick Bragg
  • The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. -- Samuel Smiles
  • How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught? -- Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes. -- V. S. Naipaul
  • Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. -- Aristotle
  • You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. -- Peter Oliver
  • People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childrenâ??especially, apparantly, their daughters. -- Daniel Dennett
  • Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant. -- Prince Philip
  • No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him. -- Alaa Al Aswany
  • its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can't be ignored -- Adnan Safi
  • Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either. -- Stephen King
  • He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence. -- Michael Lewis
  • An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. -- Adam Smith
  • I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don't care that they're ignorant and incompetent. -- Tim Leffel
  • People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. -- Kenyon Martin
  • The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. -- Maximilien Robespierre
  • It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you. -- K.J. Parker
  • Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. -- John Calvin
  • Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. -- Nancy Garden
  • Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. -- Cassandra Duffy
  • Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside. -- Kristen Stewart
  • most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. -- Mary McCarthy
  • No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant. -- Laozi
  • If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic. -- Banana Yoshimoto
  • This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. -- Henry Seymour Conway
  • No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. -- Domenico Dolce
  • I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there. -- Amber Rose
  • People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant. -- Maya Angelou
  • Though people know the meaning of the word acceptance, people are ignorant about it. Thinking acceptance may hurt their self esteem. -- Pushkar Saraf
  • Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. -- Derek R. Audette
  • Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change. -- Stuart Duncan
  • It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more. -- Richelle Mead
  • Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. -- John Muir
  • The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible. -- Freeman Dyson
  • 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
  • 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
  • Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! -- Katharine Lee Bates
  • There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. -- Janis Ian
  • This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve. -- Roxane Gay
  • It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes... -- Mark Twain
  • Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way. -- Too $hort
  • I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world. -- Jane Fonda
  • History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably. -- Mark Twain
  • People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business. -- Kage Baker
  • The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. -- Neal Stephenson
  • It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. -- Aleister Crowley
  • Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. -- M. F. Husain
  • One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. -- Kenneth Clark
  • Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless. -- Bill Maher
  • Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • 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. -- William Penn
  • The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks. -- Fanny Kemble
  • Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America. -- Eliza Leslie
  • The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. -- Albert Pike
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