Ignorant Quotes - Page 32

• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the arts which confer honour and benefit on the human race (among whom I reckon the impious, the cruel, the ignorant, the indolent, the base and the worthless), are held in infamy and detestation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Race, Benefits

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• When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Men, Errors

  "Gildas Salvianus; the Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work". Book by Richard Baxter, 1656.

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• The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Trouble, Modern, Brideshead Revisited

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

  Aristotle

  People, Obstinate, Opinionated

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• The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Men, Church

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• The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Racism, People

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• Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

  Pierre Berton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

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• Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

  Anna Quindlen

  Girl, Country, Silly

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• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  Socrates

  Change, Intelligent, Equality

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• Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

  Sophocles

  Appreciation, Men, Hands

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Sophocles”

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Men

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• Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.

  Plato

  Plato, Mathematics

  c.380 BC Inscription over the door of theAcademy at Athens.

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• He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Men

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• It is only the ignorant who despise education.

  Publilius Syrus

  Education, Teacher, Money

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 571, 1856.

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• Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

  George Iles

  Stars, Truth, Ignorance

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Men, Ties

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• An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Men, Understanding

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• The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

  Plato

  Plato, Ignorance, Science

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• Glory is for none but the learned,
  Guided are they - and proofs for seekers of guidance.
  Every person is measured based on how much of it (knowledge) he mastered,
  The ignorant are to the learned their enemies,
  Succeed with knowledge and live energetically forever,
  Men are all dead, only the possessors of knowledge are truly alive

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Islamic, Honour You

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• I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.

  Tim Leffel

  People, Care, Littles

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• The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Size, Dhammapada

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• God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.

  Hermann Goring

  Stupid, People, Scary

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• It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct

  Mother Teresa

  Stupid, Scary, Retribution

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