Ignorant Quotes - Page 18

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a function of ignorant fundamentalism.

Anyone who dares to speak about an aether is regarded as an ignorant and backward mind and he can only lose his credibility in scientific circles, although in reality those who criticize him use the same concept of intermediate medium in other words, whether it be fields, an associated fluid, a probability fluid, a pilot fluid, a quantum fluid, etc.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

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

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

You cannot be an egomaniac on the horse. If you lose your temper and start beating him, either you will destroy him, or he will destroy you. As soon as you start riding horses seriously, you're being disciplined on a daily basis about how ignorant you are and what there is left for you to learn.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

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

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.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

With 'swift-boating' now being used by the ignorant as a synonym for false charges, it's worth remembering that it was John Kerry who had to retract his statement about his secret Christmas mission to Cambodia, despite it having allegedly been 'seared, seared' into his memory.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say

Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.

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.