Quotes About Ignorant

I'm ignorant, like these rooftops. I've failed, like all of nature.

Philosophy is not the revelation made by the all-knowing to the ignorant, but the dialogue between equals who become accomplices in their mutual submission to the force of reason and not to the reason of force.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

I've tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of 'ADHD,' which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers to fuck around with your assets? Marriage is for the immature and the insecure and the ignorant. We who see through such institutions should be content to live together without legal coercion.

I think you are hopeful because (excuse me) you are ignorant.

Though only ten at the time and probably ignorant of what had happened—it's hard to imagine Eliza confiding such scandalous things to a young boy—John later ridiculed the rape charge and mocked the idea of his father fleeing justice.

By September 1774, Sears retaliated with scathing letters to Rivington. "I believe you to be either an ignorant impudent pretender to what you do not understand," he wrote, "or a base servile tool, ready to do the dirty work of any knave who will purchase you.

Never make love to a woman who is bad with stained glass," the emperor said solemnly, giving no indication of humorous intent. "Such a woman is an ignorant shrew.

the personification of philistine triumphalism

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Shall I think that the Creator has made man so as to leave him to debate endlessly in the intellectual miseries that surround us? I cannot believe this: God prepares a firmer and calmer future for European societies; I am ignorant of his designs, but I will not cease to believe in them [merely] because I cannot penetrate them, and I would rather doubt my enlightenment than his justice.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

A word on Academies; poetry has been attacked by an ignorant & frightened bunch of bores who don't understand how it's made, & the trouble with these creeps is they wouldn't know Poetry if it came up and buggered them in broad daylight.

Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

I am a bottomless well of revelation but cannot force the ignorant to drink. Now get your trousers off." She barked out that savage laugh of hers. "Words many a man has longed to hear me say.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

I am ignorant, but curious. Not incapable, but I can tell I'm embarking on a long journey across a deep sea. A lot will be required of me that I want desperately to learn.

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

My theory is that the Supernatural is the Impossible, and what is called the supernatural is only something in the laws of nature of which we have been hitherto ignorant.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

I was barely seventeen. I was ignorant, missus. We grew up ignorant in Limerick...we're mothers before we're women. And there's nothing here but rain and oul' biddies saying the rosaries. I'd give me teeth to get out, go to America or even England itself.