Barack Obama
Politician
"When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk."
Ignorant quotes
Ignorant
698 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
"Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant."
Samuel Adams
Politician
"For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant."
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"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."
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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."
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"If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will."
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"The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows."
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"The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse."
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"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders."
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"Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge."
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"Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
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"The learned man knows that he is ignorant."
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"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty."
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"If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries."
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"People are bloody ignorant apes."
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"Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds."
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"There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant."
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"After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears."
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"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."
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"The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster."
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"Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish."
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"The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another."
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"Better be mute, than dispute with the Ignorant."
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