Ignorant Quotes

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Janis Ian

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The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Joseph Lewis

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

Cotton Mather

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I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Anthony Bourdain

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It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Publilius Syrus

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I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.

Rick Pitino

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

Mark Twain

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I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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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.

Henry Hazlitt

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I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

David Mamet

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You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

William Cavendish

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No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

Sarita Choudhury

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Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!

Katharine Lee Bates

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I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Aeschylus

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

Saint Augustine

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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

H. L. Mencken

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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr

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I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Joe Namath

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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

John Simon

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

Tommy Armour

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True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

Jonathan Swift

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I was truly ignorant about art before the film.

Claire Forlani

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