Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

Richard Baxter

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

Tricia Helfer

I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

Jim Rohn

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

A Brahmin well versed in the scriptures is undoubtedly superior to an ignorant person.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Anne Bradstreet

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

Confucius

When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.

Alice Sebold

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

Anna Quindlen

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

Ann Aguirre

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Thomas Paine

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Huxley

The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.

Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Thomas Jefferson

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

Simone Elkeles

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Timothy Zahn

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

Rush Limbaugh

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Rumi

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Shahrukh Khan

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

Ralph Nader

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Tom DeLay

Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.

Sister Souljah

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

Socrates

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

Norm MacDonald

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

Neil Gaiman

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

Plato

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

John Podhoretz

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

Paulo Freire

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.