Quotes with ignorant

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  • Amos Bronson Alcott To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Plutarch To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Al Capp Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Benjamin Franklin We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Allan Bloom We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Arthur Murray We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Jonathan Swift What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pablo Picasso Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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