He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!
Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
I regard a human being as simply a human being, whether he is from this world or another, or whether he is a beggar, or God in person, and whether he is ignorant or wise, they are all of equal right. No one has more right than any other, and nobody is more than any other.
It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
You know when you are doing a movie like [Ted Bundy] you try to as much as you can keep it upbeat when you are not working on the scene, so you cannot totally get disgusted and lost in it and also from my point of view I was ignorant to it all what was kind of going on.
Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.
Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't agree with God's choice for the colors of the people's skin.
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.