Ignorant Quotes
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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we`ve been ignorant of their value.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
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It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn`t learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
Chinese Proverbs
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it
Allan Bloom
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked
Voltaire
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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he`d learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we`ve been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
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Ignore the ignorant
Ricky Martin
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It isn`t that liberals are ignorant. It`s just that they know so much that isn`t so.
Ronald Reagan
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Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
Alysia Waters
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We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
Alison Levine
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were ...
Amrit Bohara
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
Ajay Gupta
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Alvina Tan
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To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man`s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Alvina Tan
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There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Cotton Mather
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
I Ching
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The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were u...
John Williamson
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The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Alaida Lares
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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Kenneth Clark
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The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
William McKinley
