Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen. He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
I know my soul hath power to know all things, Yet is she blind and ignorant in all: I know I'm one of Nature's little kings, Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.
It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.
Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.
I try to be funny and not ignorant.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things.
We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.
When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side
People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.