A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
Moliere

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. Mencken

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Grantland Rice

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Thomas Babington

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
Mickey Kaus

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Alfred Russel Wallace

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.
Havelock Ellis

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
Epictetus

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war.
Hjalmar Branting

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I

But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.
Gordon Gould

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.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Muhammad Iqbal

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Goldwin Smith

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers