Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

Fred Melamed

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.

Frank Herbert

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Ivan Illich

To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

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!

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

John Young

We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

Billy Graham

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

Clarence Darrow

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public,