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.
George Eliot

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Sophocles

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
Stephen Colbert

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ethan Allen

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
Anna Julia Cooper

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Cass Gilbert

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
James Monroe

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.
Edward Bond

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Don Herold

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
Shimon Peres

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
Johannes Tauler

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.
Timothy Zahn

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.
Andrea Dworkin

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.
Emily Greene Balch

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley