Zitat des Tages über Ignorant:
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.
The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
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 secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Ignore the ignorant.
I was truly ignorant about art before the film.
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation.
