Ignorant Quotes

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

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.

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.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

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

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

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.

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.

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.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.