Ignorant Quotes - Page 15

• We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

  Maimonides

  Path, Responsible, Drag

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• I had an idea to write something set back around the Civil War era, but I was just way too ignorant to think I could start it any time soon.

  John Brandon

  War, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The technique of the book and the technique carried by the figure of Scheherazade is one of opening the Sultan's mind. He's emblematic of the ignorant person: the ignorant, lock-in, raging man who wants to kill all he doesn't understand. The model of the book is the extraordinary, very-large, Mirror of Princes.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Men, Mirrors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years off, that was the plan. Because we thought we were definitely going to take time off, I was going to go back to college, that was what I was going to do. Because the whole idea of it was that I have spent ten years in this band and not even realised that that amount of time has passed.

  Ryan Jarman

  Couple, College, Years

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• Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Strong, Writing, Use

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Perspective, Realizing

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

  Leo Errera

  Ignorance, Veils, Causes

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• There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite foolish, and quite ignorant, they never question anything, and are persuaded that they see clearly what in fact they never see at all, save through the darkness of their own dispositions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Ignorance, People, Darkness

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• We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.

  Darren Hardy

  Choices, Naked, World

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.

  K.J. Parker

  Ignorance, Long, People

  K. J. Parker (2009). “Evil For Evil: The Engineer Trilogy: Book Two”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Weakness, Brilliant

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• We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Ignorance, Men, Important

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• I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Wise, Perspective, Catholic

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Intelligent, People, Decision

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• Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at me while I was walking my baby to the doctor on the side of the road and yelled out insults. Nurses who made nasty comments about how I should get a job (I was working two of them, in addition to being a published author). It wasn't that I didn't have a job and wasn't working. The jobs in backwoods Mississippi didn't pay enough to cover living expenses.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Jobs, Two

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

  Glenn Howerton

  Ignorance, Views, Issues

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 10, 2014.

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• I think you need a very strong mind to be on social media because people are mean and ignorant out there.

  Amber Rose

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from destroying the bodies of men for refusing to receive the Lord Jesus Christ: for otherwise he would be ignorant of the sweet end of Christ's coming, which was to save the bodies and souls of men.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was a forgery, while the generality, professing to believe it genuine, should, less consistently, be satisfied with remaining ignorant of its contents, and when pressed, should discover themselves by no means to believe many of the most important particulars contained in it.

  William Wilberforce

  Believe, Mean, Important

  William Wilberforce (1820). “Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians ...: Contrasted with Real Christianity ...”, p.237

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• The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

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• The history of the world for the past several centuries and current events at home and abroad confirm the existence of such a conspiracy (to destroy Christianity and obtain global power). The world-wide net-work of diabolical conspirators implements this plot against the Christian faith while Christians appear to be sound asleep. The Christian clergy appear to be more ignorant or more indifferent about this conspiracy than other Christians ... It seems so sad.

  Benjamin H. Freedman

  Christian, Home, Past

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• Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Mother, Lying, Roots

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• I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Honor, Acquisition, Unrest

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Different, Classroom, Subjects

  "Interview: Nipsey Hussle Talks African Roots, Snoop Dogg Co-Sign, and Rappers Reppin' Gangs". Interview with Toshitaka Kondo, www.complex.com. April 1, 2010.

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• People with strong breeds are trying to be in control because their dog is labeled as aggressive or dangerous. That tells us how ignorant we are even though we love dogs.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Strong, People

  Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. October 8, 2016.

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