Ignorant Quotes - Page 25

• The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

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• The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Political, Liberty

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• Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

  Timothy Zahn

  Luck, Illusion, Foolish

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• There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.

  Zhuge Liang

  Leadership, Wise, Art

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• His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

  Stephen King

  Fathers Day, Mother, Cat

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• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Song, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

  Charley Reese

  Peace, War, Government

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Ignorance, Vanity, Stupidity

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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain

  Ignorance, Men, Another Man

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ignorance, Pride, Self

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• Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ignorance, Vaults

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.108

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• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Conversation, Former

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.77

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• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Pride, Men

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 117

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• None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Adventure, Bored

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• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Sorrow

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• True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mistake, Greatness, Bears

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation.

  George Santayana

  Hate, Opportunity, Men

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.90, MIT Press

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• Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Hatred, Ends

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

  Mark Twain

  Luck, Way, Succeed

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.114, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wise, Mistake, Men

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

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• Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas

  W. C. Fields

  Religious, Xmas, Prayer

  W. C. Fields, Ronald J. Fields (1973). “W. C. Fields by himself: his intended autobiography”, Prentice Hall

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