Ignorant Quotes - Page 18

• George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Boys, Accomplishment

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Character, Men

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behaviour and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed Natureäs inherent unity.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Men, Unity, Foundation

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.9, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

  Wes Fesler

  Arrogance, Arrogant, Moments

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• Today the art of gardening is practised much more often than any other, in ignorant, impulsive ways, by people who never stop to think that it is an art at all.

  Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer

  Art, Thinking, People

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• It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.

  David Hume

  Strong, People, Religion

  David Hume (1793). “Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects”, p.130

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• The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic, and to confer an apparently sacred character upon practices which have come down from more ignorant and barbarous times.

  Bertrand Russell

  Character, Practice, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.106, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

  John Thorn

  Retirement, Reality, Play

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• Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Listening, Age

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.28, Prestwick House Inc

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Growing Up, Princess

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• Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

  Mark Twain

  Roger, Wells, Ifs

  Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.175, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Ignorance, Reason Why

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• From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

  Dan Brown

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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• Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Cutting, Self, May

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2014). “Aurora Floyd”, p.298, Jazzybee Verlag

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• One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Order, Perfection, Deals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Rumor, Want, Bliss

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• You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Civilization, Good Things

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.25, Bantam

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• And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

  Simone Elkeles

  Want, Bliss, Ignorant Bliss

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dragons, Universe

  Jorge Luis Borges, Margarita Guerrero, Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (1970). “The book of imaginary beings”, Jonathan Cape

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• A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

  Ann Aguirre

  Instinct, Partners, Huntress

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “Mortal Danger”, p.365, Macmillan

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• I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Sweet, Stars

  "Demian". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 9, 1919.

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• Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

  Herman Melville

  Half, Action, Reproach

  Herman Melville, Tyrus Hillway (1973). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.380, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Women, Thinking

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.257

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