Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable. He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.
Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.