Ignorant Quotes - Page 35

• I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.

  M. C. Escher

  Beauty, Art, Brother

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• When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize as a conspicuous failure, trumpeted as a wonderful success, I [conclude]... that the writer ... must either be very ignorant, and the victim of deceit, or a conscious accomplice in what is nothing less than a fraud upon the public.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Failure, Science, Light

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• I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.

  Tricia Helfer

  Age, Culture, Television

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

  Chad Hugo

  Thinking, Say Anything, Persons

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• There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

  Janis Ian

  People, Needs, Feels

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

  Plato

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• 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.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Fashion, Artist, Musician

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• I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

  Hal Sparks

  Trying, I Can

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• Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

  Thomas Sowell

  Education, Self Esteem, School

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fighting, Mind, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2972, Delphi Classics

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• Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Science, Thinking

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• Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Wise, Stress

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• A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Lying, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• The Christian Bible is a drug store. It´s contents have remained the same but the medical practice continues. For 1,800 years these changes were slight--scarcely noticeable... The dull and ignorant physician day and night, and all the days and all the nights, drenched his patient with vast and hideous doses of the most repulsive drugs to be found in the store´s stock. He kept him religion sick for eighteen centuries, and allowed him not a well day during all that time.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Night, Practice

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• I actually struggled through teaching myself to cook because I'm completely ignorant in the kitchen. So I did really macho things like trying to make my own curry. Really hardcore stuff.

  Simon Helberg

  Teaching, Kitchen, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are bloody ignorant apes.

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Apes, Bloody

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.357, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’

  Abu Rayhan al-Biruni

  Doors, Use, Sage

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• This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Dubious, Apocalypse

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “Everything Must Change: When the World's Biggest Problems and Jesus' Good News Collide”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

  K. Pattabhi Jois

  Jewels, Would Be, Body

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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Able, Lasers

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• People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Art, People, Understanding

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Knowing, Suffering, Luck

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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