Ignorant Person Quotes:

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

topic: Ignorance, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Education, Not Stupid, Infinite Intelligence

It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

- Ralph Waldo Trine

topic: Wise, Selfish, People, Selfish Person, Selfish People

The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel

- Guru Gobind Singh

topic: Jewels, Appreciate, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

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

topic: Education, Ignorant, World, Caliphs, Learned Person

I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.

- Trevor Noah

topic: Silly, Journey, Talking, Daily Show, Ignorant Person

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When an ignorant person laughs, his laughter is very aggressive, egoistic. The ignorant person always laughs at others. The contented person, the person who knows life a little, laughs at himself - at the whole play of life itself. It is not addressed to anybody in particular. He just laughs at the absurdity of it all... the impossibility of it all.

- Rajneesh

topic: Laughter, Play, Laughing, Ignorant Person

The technique of the book and the technique carried by the figure of Scheherazade is one of opening the Sultan's mind. He's emblematic of the ignorant person: the ignorant, lock-in, raging man who wants to kill all he doesn't understand. The model of the book is the extraordinary, very-large, Mirror of Princes.

- Marina Warner

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Book, Men, Mirrors, Ignorant Person

The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.583, Delphi Classics

topic: Philosophy, Book, Writing, Ignorant Person

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

- Will Rogers

topic: Inspiration, Justice, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Humorous, Educated Man, Ignorant Person

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

- John Constable

topic: Education, Artist, Self, Self Taught, Ignorant Person

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

- Chad Hugo

topic: Thinking, Ignorant, Say Anything, Ignorant Person

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

- Westbrook Pegler

topic: Rights, America, Long, Personal Rights, Ignorant Person

Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.

- Chico Xavier

topic: Opportunity, Ignorant, Path, Ignorant Person

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

- Epictetus

topic: Wise, Men, Ignorant, Ignorant Person

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

- Louis de Bernieres

topic: Stupid, Ignorance, Ideas, Ignorant Person

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men, Inferiority Complex, Ignorant Person

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus (2013). “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.47, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Life, Hate, Men, Actual Life, Ignorant Person

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

- Ajahn Sumedho

source: "23 Warning Signs of a Toxic Friend" by Ann Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2016.

topic: Ignorant, Mind, Enlightened, Adaptability, Adaptable

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

- Mickey Kaus

topic: Character, Ignorant, Bad Character, Learned Person, Unarmed

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.

- Hendrik Willem van Loon

topic: Ignorance, Ignorant, Facts, Ignorant Person

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

- Epictetus

topic: Ignorant, Attention, Stranger, Ignorant Person