Ignorant Quotes - page 3

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. (Giacomo Casanova)
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so. View quote
Plotinus
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. View quote
Jerome
A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant. View quote
Posidonius
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. View quote
Timothy Zahn
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress. View quote
Daniel Dennett
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. View quote
Bodhidharma
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant. View quote
Pythagoras
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. (Harriet Tubman)
Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc. View quote
Maurice Allais
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year. View quote
River Phoenix
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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". View quote
Al-Biruni
No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants. View quote
Jean-Paul Marat
Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interest, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions. View quote
Thomas Paine
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. View quote
Thomas Paine
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety. View quote
William Hazlitt
Know that the difficulties which lead to confusion in the question what is the purpose of the Universe or of any of its parts, arise from two causes: first, man has an erroneous idea of himself, and believes that the whole world exists only for his sake; secondly, he is ignorant both about the nature of the sublunary world, and about the Creator's intention to give existence to all beings whose existence is possible, because existence is undoubtedly good. (Maimonides)
An ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him: as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. There are many ... passages in the books of the prophets expressing the same idea. View quote
Maimonides
Even when a person suffers pain in consequence of a thorn having entered into his hand, although it is at once drawn out, it is a punishment that has been inflicted on him, and the least pleasure he enjoys is a reward; all this is meted out by strict justice; as is said in the Scripture, "all His ways are judgement" (Deut. xxxii. 4); we are only ignorant of the working of that judgement. View quote
Maimonides
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. View quote
Graham Greene
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will. View quote
Blaise Pascal