Ignorant Quotes - Page 14

• To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

  Julian Assange

  Cages, Persons

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

  Julian Assange

  Over You, Rulers

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• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

  Martin Rees

  Ignorance, Too Much, Venezuela

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• Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

  Ira Glass

  Stories, Movement, Want

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• You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

  Marisha Pessl

  Mystery, Journalist

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.80, Random House

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• Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Karma, Coffee, May

  Kelley Armstrong (2011). “Spell Bound: A Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

  Isocrates

  Looks, Reputation, Accusation

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Years, Atheism, Tasks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.484, Library of Alexandria

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• The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

  Winston Churchill

  Stupidity, Bears, Chiefs

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Long, Answers

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

  John Henry Newman

  Mind, Knows, Ifs

  John Henry Newman (1873). “Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects”, p.280

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• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• A character, to be acceptable as more than a chess piece, has to be ignorant of the future, unsure about the past, and not at all sure of what he's supposed to be doing.

  Anthony Burgess

  Character, Past, Chess Pieces

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Selfish, Ignorance

  Thomas Sowell (1987). “Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays”, William Morrow

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• To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, Forever

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• The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Meat, Enough

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• Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Fashion, Religious, Views

  H.P. Blavatsky (2014). “Isis Unveiled”, p.780, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature, except for ignorant people. Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world. Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Art, Exercise, Hands

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• They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Fool, Consolation

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• When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Ignorance, Order, Doubt

  "The Value of Science". Richard P. Feynman's public address at the National Academy of Sciences, Autumn 1955.

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance

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• If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Stubborn, Virtue

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