Ignorant Quotes - Page 11

• A dry well is not a friend of a thirsty man; and an ignorant man, of the progression!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Dry, Thirsty

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• All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Government, Existence

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• Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Stars, Blessing

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• Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Giving, Stupidity

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• Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Mistake, Stupid

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• Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Single Mom, Ideas, Moments

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• For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as a genius! Their opinions must always be considered as invalid and must be ignored!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Perfect, Genius

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• ... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Pain, Ill Health, Advice

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• The fact that we are culturally ignorant and we don't know what our heritage is, the price that we pay is that we act outside of ourselves almost all the time. We make very bad decisions how we deal with other people and their culture.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Decision, Culture

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• Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

  Russell Kirk

  Mind, Desire, Action

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• If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Support, Leader

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• Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  People, Giving, Humanity

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• Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Hate, Tyrants

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• In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Majority, Nightmare

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• In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Stars, People

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• In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Deep Water, Brave

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• Master Michelangelo once said that 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.' This is what we must do when we see an ignorant man: To set him free from the black marble we call ignorance!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ignorance, Angel, Men

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• Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Simple, Ignorant Masses

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• Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Winning, Water, Sand

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• Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  People, Constitution, Slave

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• Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Heart

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

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• It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Disease

  William Shakespeare (2016). “King Henry IV Part 2: Third Series”, p.391, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is certainly of great importance for a general to keep his plans secret; and Frederick the Great was right when he said that if his night-cap knew what was in his head he would throw it into the fire. That kind of secrecy was practicable in Frederick's time when his whole army was kept closely about him; but when maneuvers of the vastness of Napoleon's are executed, and war is waged as in our day, what concert of action can be expected from generals who are utterly ignorant of what is going on around them?

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  War, Army, Night

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• You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

  Epictetus

  Birth, Goddess, Fragments

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• Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Wise, Ignorance

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