Quotes and Sayings About Ignorant
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To believe something in the face of evidence and against reason - to believe something by faith - is ignoble, irresponsible and ignorant, and merits the opposite of respect,
-- A.C. GraylingSource : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.8, Oberon Books
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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 -
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni -
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
-- Adora SvitakSource : "Adora Svitak Likes French Philosophy, Reads Three Novels A Day, Has Written 400 Short Stories And Champions Feminism And World Peace. She Is 8". www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2006.
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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.
-- Adora Svitak -
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
-- Aeschylus -
We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war, and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern, and good intentions.
-- Ai Weiwei -
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
-- Ajahn SumedhoSource : "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.
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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 -
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
-- Albert Martin -
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
-- Albert Pike -
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If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
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It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
-- Aleister CrowleySource : Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books
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There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead.
-- Alexander Pope -
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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 WallaceSource : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.85, Verso
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The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
-- Alfred the Great -
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
-- Alice Sebold -
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.
-- Allan Bloom -
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
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But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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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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Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
-- Anne BradstreetSource : Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”
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A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
-- Anne Hathaway -
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
-- Aristotle -
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.
-- Arthur Murray