Ignorant Quotes

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin

Work, Stupid, Hard

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge, Gossip, Person

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Free, Nation, State

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
Ronald Reagan

Friends, Trouble, Liberal

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain

Lie, Youth, Boy

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Learn, Shame, Unwilling

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

Learned, Greater, Blockhead

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran

God, Knowledge, Person

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Rich, Rather, Leave

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Wise, Questions

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Lie, Free

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold

Smart, Takes, Prove

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

Knowledge, Learning, Compared

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers

Different, Everybody, Subjects

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Education, Men, Stupid

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

Crazy, Making, Newspaper

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
Bill Maher

Politics, Time, Freedom

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Bodhidharma

Anger, Mind, Greed

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire

Question, Asked, Answers

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Voltaire

Making, Books, Multitude

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

Yourself, Enemy, Both

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sympathy, Feelings, Different

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

Him, Learn, Met

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius

Lazy, Perhaps, Truly

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
Henry Ward Beecher

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom, Secret, Lies

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dangerous, Classes

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo

Fact, Knows, Animal

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

Design, America, Earth

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