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.
An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
I am ignorant and that's why I'm happy!
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.
Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.
If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide; If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.
Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
The ignorant torment themselves more than they do others.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
To the ignorant, even the words of wise seem foolishness.