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Tag Name "Ignorant" (719)

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Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen
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Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
Vernon Howard
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Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so it is the sickening grammar that they use.
Mark Twain
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Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.
Edward Gibbon
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Seneca the Younger
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
V. S. Naipaul
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Ignorant power is a bane!
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
Eliza Leslie
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Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure.
Cleanthes
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Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
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Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.
Linda Simon
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A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.
Ann Aguirre
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As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.
Alan Watts
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
Michel de Montaigne
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Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
Martin Rees
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It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.
William Shakespeare
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In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.
Walter E. Williams
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
Heraclitus
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Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.
Anna Brownell Jameson
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We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.
Albert Einstein
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