Ignorant Quotes - Page 8

• It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Easy, Intricate

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• To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

  Julian Assange

  Cages, Persons

  "Julian Assange rails against surveillance on Today programme" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2014.

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• You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

  Julian Assange

  Over You, Rulers

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• Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

  Martin Rees

  Ignorance, Too Much, Venezuela

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• Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

  Ira Glass

  Stories, Movement, Want

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• A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Ignorance, Curiosity, Desire

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• Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Civilization, Overcoming, Acquisition

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• You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

  Marisha Pessl

  Mystery, Journalist

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.80, Random House

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• Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Karma, Coffee, May

  Kelley Armstrong (2011). “Spell Bound: A Novel”, p.81, Penguin

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• The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Years, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.48, Beacon Press

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• Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation.

  Isocrates

  Looks, Reputation, Accusation

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Years, Atheism, Tasks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.484, Library of Alexandria

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• Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Destiny, Men, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.747, Library of Alexandria

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• What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Nice, Journey, Lessons To Be Learned

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.47, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

  Winston Churchill

  Stupidity, Bears, Chiefs

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Smell

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• The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.

  George H. Smith

  Ignorance, Imagination, Design

  George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books

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• I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Thinking, Parent

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• And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

  Luther Burbank

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.

  Johnny Depp

  Morning, Ignorance, Mirrors

  "Public Enemies - Johnny Depp interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Long, Answers

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

  John Henry Newman

  Mind, Knows, Ifs

  John Henry Newman (1873). “Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects”, p.280

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• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Class, White

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

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• No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that of every man, no matter how base-born, how stupid, how ignorant, how vicious, how poverty-stricken, how brutal. The pauper in the almshouse may vote; the lady who devotes her philanthropic thought to making that almshouse habitable, may not. The tramp who begs cold victuals in the kitchen may vote; the heiress who feeds him and endows universities may not.

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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