Ignorant Quotes - Page 9

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Well, I have a testimony, I may be ignorant, but I am not lost.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

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

If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.

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.

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.