Ignorant Quotes

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Jordan Peterson

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

Alfred Russel Wallace

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

Peter Oliver

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I've been blissfully ignorant about the result of my films and don't get swayed by success or failure.

Nithya Menen

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The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

Marshall McLuhan

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To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Julian Assange

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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

Henry Ward Beecher

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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.

Fred Melamed

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers

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

Marcus Aurelius

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

George Eliot

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

Orson F. Whitney

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

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

Barry Gibb

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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

John Adams

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In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This caution was less evident with some of the authorities I met in India.

Amitava Kumar

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The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

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Anti-Semitism is a rotten thing. It's an ignorant, stupid, horrible thing. As is anti-Muslim feeling. They have to be together.

Miriam Margolyes

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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

William McKinley

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