English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Being Ignorant Quotes

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like. David Sedaris
Benjamin Franklin quote: "Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to..."
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
James Beattie quote: "Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe."
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. James Beattie
The modern ignorance is in people's assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The next hard time is just as real to him as the last, and so is the next blessing. The new ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is the same as the old, only less aware that ignorance is what it is. It is less humble, more... Wendell Berry
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. Maya Angelou
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed? Rush Limbaugh
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was. Margaret Atwood
...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius. Louis de Bernieres
Amos Bronson Alcott quote: "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Amos Bronson Alcott
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance. Murray Rothbard
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life. Robert Anton Wilson
Sydney Smith quote: "Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things,..."
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. Sydney Smith
St. Jerome quote: "It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance."
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. St. Jerome
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters. Bill Gates
Domenico Dolce quote: "Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe..."
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. Domenico Dolce

Popular Topics

Popular Author