Quotes About Ignorant

They were endowed with the qualities of youth- they were rebellious, fearless, eager to fight for a 'just cause', thirsty for adventure and action. They were also irresponsible, ignorant, and easy to manipulate- and prone to violence. Only they could give Mao the immense force that he needed to terrorize the society.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with quickened pace Is ignorant of dawn.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

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

Too many are, as Tertullian saith in another case,[29] more tender of their reputation than their salvation: who are more ashamed to be thought ignorant, than careful to have it cured.

Von Kerssenbrock, a loyal Catholic, sniffed that Rothmann preached "not so much with solid arguments as with clumsy aspersions. The ignorant commoners, however, who cannot distinguish eloquence from bombast, thought that he had spoken excellently."107

From earliest times men wholly ignorant of the Bible have concluded on the basis of the design in the universe that God must exist.

Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.