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The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance. — Bertrand Russell

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant. — Vladimir Putin

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in. — Emmanuel Aghado

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! — Iris Murdoch

WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD. — Peter J. Carroll

They are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters. — Jane Austen

People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. — Kenyon Martin

The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides. — Joyce Carol Oates

The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
[The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.] — George Herbert

Amor does not vincit omnia, you ignorant man... when the woman doesn't amat you back! — Liz Braswell

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say — G.L.S. Shackle

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference. — Charley Reese

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant. — Steven Erikson

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. — Alfred The Great

He who hangs on the errors of the ignorant multitude, must not be counted among great men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained. — Maupertuis

Speaking intelligence to an ignorant person is like talking to a cock roach- They simply can't understand. — Angela Reuss

ignoramus et ignorabimus - we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses. — Galina Nelson

It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct — Mother Teresa

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? — Allan Bloom

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost. — Hugh Nibley

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough. — Stanley Kubrick

Predjudice is a sign of ignorance;I am not an ignorant person — Eric Obmann

Ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins! — Mark Twain

Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth his power! — William Beckford

Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available. — Cassandra Duffy

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome — Devdutt Pattanaik

They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it. — Norm MacDonald

You comfort me so much! I am so ignorant. Am I to kiss you now? Is the moment come? — Charles Dickens

Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar

So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil. — Michelle A. Lammers

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain

Every man is on earth to symbolize something he is ignorant of. — Kem Nunn

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people. — Tinie Tempah

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. — Sun Tzu

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. — Joe Abercrombie

I was truly ignorant about art before the film. — Claire Forlani

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun

I wish I was ignorant, so I didn't know how ignorant I am — Margaret Atwood

Racial superiority isn't real. It is delusional fiction created by ignorant people. — Jonathan Heatt

curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl — Lewis Carroll

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant. — John Muir

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant. — Jane Austen

You can't change ignorance by beating a hole into someone's face. Doing that only makes you as ignorant as they are. — Melyssa Winchester

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. — Bob Uecker

Not all black people are loud, ghetto, and ignorant, Some of them act like they got some common sense. — Vj Nadar

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid! — Sissy Spacek

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. — Timothy Zahn

Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another. — Peter Bray

The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible. — Thomas Jefferson

God, she was so ignorant. — Ella Dominguez

Most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant. — Mary McCarthy

A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart

Keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life. — Sunday Adelaja

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death. — Avicenna

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people. — John Calvin

I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies. — Kylie Jenner

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. — Maurice Sendak

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent. — Raquel Welch

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight. — Elfriede Jelinek

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened. — Francis Alexander Durivage

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. — Kahlil Gibran

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty. — Marshall McLuhan

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. — Plato

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

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. — Jerome

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. — Seneca The Younger

A child that is taught opinion over fact ends up ignorant. — Glenn Kleier

The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud. — G.K. Chesterton

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments. — Herbert V. Prochnow

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature. — George Dana Boardman Pepper

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand. — Barry Gibb

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love. — Nancy Garden

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy. — Edwin A. Abbott

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? — Herman Melville

You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying ... — Emily Bronte

Artificial trees, robot sofas,
Ignorant cars-
One Way Street to Heaven — Allen Ginsberg

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? — Saint Augustine

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. — Amos Bronson Alcott

I am not concerned about how much educated I am or how much I know ... i am only concerned about how much ignorant I am — Sameh Elsayed

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe. — Arrian

There is nothing worse than a completely ignorant person operating with complete conviction. That — Juliette Harper