Top 252 Ignorant Quotes

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can’t even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

I’m quite ignorant about fashion and I’m colourblind, so it’s all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

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

If we’re going to be successful and be considered credible in the Hispanic community, we’ve got to denounce some of the ignorant statements that are made about Hispanics and the contributions we make, whether it’s to the military, our nation’s economy, or to the history of Texas.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick – white, black, green, I don’t care.

I was kind of ignorant. Being naive – ‘who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won’t count’ – that’s kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they’re ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

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.

You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

I don’t want to be ignorant in my daughter’s eyes.

There’s some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I’ll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.

I like to think I don’t make music for ignorant people.

I know how people see me. People see me as a rebel. People see me as maybe even ignorant. People see me as a threat or rude or whatever. It’s a lot of people who just don’t know me.

Not even a maggot is an it, and to refer to any animal in that manner is an affectation, an ignorant stab at science-speak.

I don’t know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

This might disappoint you somewhat, but I have to say my interest in Tolkien has faded dramatically over the years. His language skills are amazing, his story good and fascinating, but… he has a very Judeo-Christian perspective, and his use of mythical creatures is very… ignorant.

I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation – as an actor and as a person – perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it’s cute.

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

I linked up with Swishahouse when I was 17 or 18, and was a child through most of my first few records. The music wasn’t childish or corny but you could see it was from a place of a child – somebody that was a little more ignorant or ratchet. Now that I have kids, there’s a bigger sense of responsibility.

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

Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.

I try to be funny and not ignorant.

Meryl Streep is at the apex of Hollywood, and it is ludicrous for anyone to think or for her to expect anyone to think that she was completely ignorant of Harvey Weinstein’s serial predation of women.

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

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I’ve got opinions, but they’re opinions on both sides – not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It’s absolutely ignorant.

I know many young conservatives all across the country that are isolated and ostracized due to their beliefs. They are portrayed as bigots, misogynists and ignorant just because they are conservative.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they’re nuts or they’re crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I’ve seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I’ve dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I’ve had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn’t very ignorant because I’ve seen a lot.

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

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.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

I think Theodore Adorno was profoundly ignorant. I think even Adorno’s fans think he was bad at understanding popular music. He thought it was all jazz.

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.

When I was younger and I did West End shows like ‘Les Mis,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Chitty,’ I was blissfully ignorant – it was amazing to be a part of, but I didn’t realise the scale of it all and how important a role it would play in my life when I grew up. It was just a fun thing I’d do every couple of days.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don’t want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie – but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Spending $40,000 on shoes is downright ignorant.

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.’

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh – always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she’s dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

I was not aware of alopecia before ‘Gone Kesh,’ and when I heard the synopsis, read the script, I realized how ignorant we are about people’s lifestyles and their issues.