Ignorant Quotes - Page 7

• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Fire, Matter, Sticks

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• The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

  George Sand

  Ungrateful, Feelings, Style

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Where is the reward of virtue? and what recompense has nature provided for such important sacrifices as those of life and fortune, which we must often make to it? O sons of earth! Are ye ignorant of the value of this celestial mistress? And do ye meanly inquire for her portion, when ye observe her genuine beauty?

  David Hume

  Son, Sacrifice, Mistress

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.90, Oxford University Press

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• Los intelectuales atraviesan las más finas gradaciones de clase y calidad: desde los que son meros neuróticos educados, generalmente con fuertes tendencias reaccionarias ocultas, pasando por mediocres de todo tipo, hasta hombres de verdadero cerebro y sensibilidad, más o menos anquilosados en diversas respetabilidades o sucedáneos de respetabilidad. El número de Especialistas Ignorantes es grande. También es grande el número de histéricos y compulsivos.

  Louise Bogan

  Strong, Real, Men

  Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

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• it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

  Lionel Shriver

  Ignorance, Difficult, Impress

  Lionel Shriver (2007). “A Perfectly Good Family: A Novel”, Harper Perennial

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• It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Wise, Selfish, People

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• Consideremos cuán grande es la mercancía de doctrina que existe en los libros; con qué facilidad, con qué secreto, con qué seguridad ponen al descubierto la desnudez de la ignorancia humana sin avergonzarla. Estos son los maestros que nos instruyen sin varas ni férulas, sin palabras duras ni enojos, sin ropa ni dinero. Si te acercas a ellos, no están dormidos; si investigando los interrogas, no ocultan nada; si los equivocas, nunca refunfuñan; si eres ignorante, no pueden reírse de ti.

  Richard de Bury

  Error, Libro, Ignorancia

  Richard de Bury (2013). "Philobiblon: A Treatise on the Love of Books", p.11, Cambridge University Press.

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• Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

  Chanakya

  Son, Swans, Parent

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• we are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.

  Winifred Holtby

  Congratulations, Race, Despair

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Desire, Way, Advisors

  Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.277, Profile Books

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Hombres, Raza, Personas

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• swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

  Mary Collyer

  Stupid, Said, Vivacity

  Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.203

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• 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.

  Maurice Allais

  Reality, Circles, Mind

  "L'anisotropie de l'espace. La nécessaire révision de certains postulats des théories contemporaines. Les données de l'expérience" by Maurice Allais, Clément Juglar, Paris, (p. 506), 1997.

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• En la actualidad, el clero está dividido en tres secciones: un inmenso cuerpo que es ignorante; una pequeña proporción que sabe y calla; y una ínfima minoría que sabe y habla de acuerdo con sus conocimientos.

  Thomas Huxley

  Three, Minorities, Body

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• Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

  Eliza Leslie

  America, People, Rags

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book: A Guide and Manual for Ladies as Regards Their Conversation; Manners; Dress; with Full Instructions and Advice in Letter Writing [!]; Receiving Presents; Incorrect Words”, p.259

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• Los ignorantes y los ilusos son, creo, de una manera extraña envidiables. Lo que no se conoce no nos preocupa, mientras que un peligro imaginado pero insustancial no nos perjudica. Conocer las verdades de la realidad es una carga mucho mayor.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Reality, Thinking, Doe

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• Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."

  Stephen Fry

  Sex, Animal, Zoologist

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Grief

  "El fin de Gore Vidal". Entrevista con Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. 15 de agosto de 2012.

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• I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.

  Stephen Colbert

  Guests, Vigilant

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• As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Stars, Ignorance

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• In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

  Robert Boyle

  Bible, Ignorance, Knowing

  Robert Boyle (1675). “Some considerations touching the style of the H. Scriptures; extracted from ... a discourse, concerning divers particulars belonging to the Bible ... The third edition”, p.53

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• El mundo, y los grandes y libres Estados Unidos en particular, están llenos de atávicos de mente estrecha, ignorantes, imbéciles, intolerantes, cobardes, santurrones, anémicos, cabezas de cerdo, estúpidos, puritanos, hipócritas, prejuiciosos, fanáticos de sangre de cacao, que calman su complejo de inferioridad ladrando su odio a todo lo nuevo.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Estúpido, Cerdo, Yo

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• To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Children, Past, Forever

  "Orator Ad M. Brutum" by Cicero, chapter XXXIV, section 120,

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• I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game.

  Michael K. Williams

  Smart, Play, Mirrors

  "Hablando con la boca llena: Michael Kenneth Williams". Entrevista con Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. 4 de octubre de 2011.

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• El ignorante tiene alas de águila y ojos de búho.
  [El ignorante tiene alas de águila y ojos de búho].

  George Herbert

  Eye, Eagles, Wings

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). "Las obras poéticas de George Herbert", p.319

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