I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.
It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.
I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like 'Rock of Love' and Flavor Flav's show. It's kind of embarrassing because it's completely ignorant television - it's all totally fake and garbage - but I still love it.
Bullies are just ignorant.
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since.
The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.
I think there is this whole part of America that people overlook. I think they know it's there, but they tend to overlook it, become ignorant to it, and refuse to see it for what it is.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
