Quotes of: Ignorant-people Keyword

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

The River of Winged Dreams

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The Trial

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

The Unholy Cause

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

When True Night Falls

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Ignorance is not bliss; it is a sure path to annihilation.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

The teachers complain that the students today are all lazy, ignorant, and stupid. But the truth is that you're smarter than they are. You're not even old enough to drive and you already know that none of this matters.

You

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

Zen in the Art of Writing

There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous ‘blind-spots’ in the path to your success.

Making Success Deliberate

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

Nellie McKay

I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.

Nikki Rowe

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Orson Scott Card

God make one mysterious beautiful creature in the world name GIRL if you try to found mystery you will find beauty and if you ignore it you will say She is a Bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oncar Patcar

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

Oprah Winfrey

A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.

Paul Bloom

In a story, you must always listen for the voice you cannot hear, the one that has been ignored or silenced. In that crushed voice, there is a strain of truth, as a crushed grape yields a drop of wine.

Patricia Storace

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley