Quotes on Ignorant

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

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.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

This therefore is Mathematics: She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul; She gives life to her own discoveries; She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; She brings light to our intrinsic ideas; She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth.

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.