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Ignorance Quotes (page 30)

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell. Stephen Covey
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. Victor Hugo
Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts. Ava Gardner
I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations Winston Churchill
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth. Maya Angelou
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. Barack Obama
Leonard Cohen quote: "Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore Leonard Cohen
Carl Sagan quote: "Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake..."
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. Carl Sagan
Terry Prachett quote: "It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful,..."
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. Terry Prachett
Rainer Maria Rilke quote: "We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash."
We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash. Rainer Maria Rilke
You meet me after school right here", I said."Why?" he asked. I couldn't believe he was so stupid."Because we're going to finish this fight."You're crazy," Roger said. He got to his feet and walked away. His gang stared at me like I was a serail killer, and they followed their leader. I was absolutely confused. I had followed the rules of fighting. i had behaved exactly the way I was supposed to behave. But these white boys had ignored the rules. In fact, they followed a whole other set of... Sherman Alexie
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless. George Bernard Shaw
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight..."
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. Mahatma Gandhi
John Berger quote: "To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant."
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant. John Berger
I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn... P. G. Wodehouse

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