Ignorant Quotes

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

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.

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Governor, why wouldn't anyone want to say the Pledge of Allegiance, unless they detested their own country or were ignorant of its greatness?

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

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

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.