Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.
We all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
Some artists are told what to like and told definitions of what the music business is. That's a problem. Music is artistry, and you want your music heard, your act known. But artists don't know. They are ignorant the minute they sign a contract.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.
The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.
People are bloody ignorant apes.
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art. . . Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.
A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released, but householders entertain no desire to be relieved from the ties of family. When a man's passion is aroused nothing prevents him from ruining himself. Even into the jaws of a tiger will he jump. Those who are thus drowned in the filth of passion are called the ignorant. Those who are able to overcome it are saintly Arhats.