Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Confucius

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

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.

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.

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.

Plato

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

Marisha Pessl

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Nicolaus Copernicus

There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the Bible twisted to suit their purpose. I value them not, and scorn their unfounded judgment.

Mark Twain

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Oscar Wilde

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Lydia M. Child

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Lactantius

But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those voices are not divine, but human.

Lindsay Anderson

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

Flip Wilson

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Fanny Burney

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Fidel Castro

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

Isabel Allende

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Freeman Dyson

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

Janeane Garofalo

I was too ignorant to realize, "Oh, this will be difficult."

Hal Sparks

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Herman Melville

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Herman Melville

Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.

Jean-Paul Marat

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.