Quotes with ignorant

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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Adams Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • John Adams 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
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken 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.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Clarence Darrow 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
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Harriet Tubman I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Richard Dawkins I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Anne Bronte 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 .
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Aeschylus I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abu Bakr 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
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anna Quindlen 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
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Sophocles Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • William G. McAdoo It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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  • Anna Julia Cooper 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.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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