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Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.
Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.
No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
Where I am ignorant, Lord, teach me. Where I am wrong, Lord, correct me. Where I am right, Lord, confirm me.
I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.
Do not fret over the ignorant person; surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.
Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Though the ancients were ignorant of the principles of Christianity there were in them the germs of its spirit.
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?
The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
I have very little patience for ignorant, incompetent people who don’t care that they’re ignorant and incompetent.
If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.
Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.
I feel like I've lost so many amazing traits because I've listened to stupid people, ignorant people who are bullies.
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.