Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure it easily, and supposes it to be the standard of every other nature.
I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why.
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.
Wherever the ignorant triumphs, over there the greatest defeats are on the way!
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into. . . the maintenance of that which is worthless.
Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change the structural realities that make people make bad choices beyond their ignorance or what have you.
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.
Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.
We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret. When you are old, you become impatient with the way in which the young applaud the most insignificant improvements … while remaining heedless of the world’s barbarism. I don’t say things have got worse; I merely say the young wouldn’t notice if they had. The old times were good because then we were young, and ignorant of how ignorant the young can be.
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous term) for breadth and depth of learning in the world history of art and thought. . . . Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion. This is one of the primary reasons for the dullness and ineptitude of so much twentieth-criticism, as compared to nineteenth-century belles-lettres.