Once people are made aware of things that they were previously ignorant of, I think people are a lot more willing to really try.
Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!
It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.
I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.
We… are not really free if we can’t control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.
I’ve tried many times to set out the case against the wicked fantasy of ‘ADHD,’ which usually earns me nothing but ignorant rage in return.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it’s all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.
People are just so insensitive because they’re ignorant; they don’t understand, so they’re scared of what they’re ignorant of.
It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own customers, and how obstinate they were in denying those habits and then trying to essentially alter those habits instead of retooling their business to adapt to them.
I can’t sight-read classical etudes – I would have to see it and learn it. But yeah, I can read. It is a wonderful tool. It’s like speaking another language. Anyone that says reading music can hurt your playing is either stupid, lazy, or ignorant.
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn’t flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
Western medicine was developed for crisis and war, such as if you got shot or wounded, to put the soldier back on the battlefield. It works well for catastrophic situations, but it is absolutely ignorant about prevention and lifestyle.
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
I can’t help thinking if she – the director of a government agency – is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from – how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it’s been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
I’m sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he’d ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.
People don’t know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you’re slow or whatnot.
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.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
‘Ted Lasso’ is a show about a guy who is ignorant – he doesn’t know anything about football. But he’s not arrogant and he’s not shouting people down.
To be perfectly honest, I have not watched ‘Discovery,’ I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I thought it was another movie coming out.
When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
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.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.
I love being tall. I see guys who don’t handle it so well, like that Dwayne Schintzius of Florida. I don’t want to sound ignorant or anything, but that guy’s got a problem.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.
Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?
People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.
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.
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.
Anywhere, you’re going to get people who are ignorant or rude but it’s not the whole of society. I don’t think my life is doomed because I look like this.
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written about the Irish, the Jews, the Italians, any group you want.
Planning to play: that’s what saving for retirement is today – and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.
But I think your biggest crime as a citizen of society or America or the world is to be ignorant by choice. There’s no excuse for that. I feel, when the information is at my fingertips, I could never choose to be ignorant.
The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that’s how they want you.
I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she’s beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.
Bullies are just ignorant.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
