"The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest."
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"Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits practiced by people on themselves and on others. I reject it utterly, along with a few other medieval items still adored by the ignorant, the conventional, or the very sick."
"We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian system that is of any great influence, and that, as a whole, the theory is not only unproved, but impossible, the ignorant, half-educated masses have acquired the idea that it is to be accepted as a fundamental fact."
"The clergy are at present divided into three sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge."
"You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature."
"If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are."
"Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be."
"Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts."
"No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time."
"no people can be both ignorant and free."
"You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing."
"I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why."
"Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you."
"It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant."
"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."
"Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole."
"If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss."
"And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss."
"The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated."
"Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either."