Quotes with ignorant

  • The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
  • 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.
  • I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
  • A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
  • Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
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  • John Simon Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
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  • John Abbott ''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.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Molière A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Voltaire The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • J. Bartlett Brebner Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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  • Will Rogers An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace 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
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Publilius Syrus Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Berenson Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Will Rogers Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Plotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Voltaire He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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