Top 252 Ignorant Quotes

Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it’s more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
Katha Pollitt
MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world – but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
Demetrious Johnson
Ignorant men don’t know what good they hold in their hands until they’ve flung it away.
Sophocles
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges
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
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it’s a new language.
Domenico Dolce
I have a season pass to several of the VH1 shows, like ‘Rock of Love’ and Flavor Flav’s show. It’s kind of embarrassing because it’s completely ignorant television – it’s all totally fake and garbage – but I still love it.
Megan Fox
One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn’t learn about the outside world.
Greg Mortenson
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn’t think for themselves.
Flea
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow
All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I’m transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.
EJ Johnson
What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Jonathan Swift
We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but i

We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it’s given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.
Weyes Blood
I will call out the lazy, the idle, and the ignorant. I will support the hard working, the industrious, and the law.
Katie Hopkins
Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man’s look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.
Roger Stone
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Unknown
I think there is this whole part of America that people overlook. I think they know it’s there, but they tend to overlook it, become ignorant to it, and refuse to see it for what it is.
Sasha Lane
History will do what it always does. It will make ignorant statements, in retrospect, seem shortsighted and discriminatory, and the women who will serve their country bravely in the jobs that are now opening up will prove them wrong. Just like we always have.
MJ Hegar
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Plotinus
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
Anna Quindlen
The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois
The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.
Tommy Armour
He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Voltaire
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
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
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant.
Rush Limbaugh
Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘New York Post.’ Trump’s oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.
Richard Cohen
Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s dead. They’re dead, they’re dead, they’re dead. The South’s not risin’ again. The slaves have been emancipated.
Bobcat Goldthwait
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
Suzanne Fields
It’s one thing to be dumb or ignorant or be in over your head. But if you can be the person who knows how much he does not know and be curious about the things you do not know, then that automatically lends itself to being a big-hearted, welcoming person who wants to know about every single person you meet.
Brendan Hunt
My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.
Lil Pump
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Peter Drucker
Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they’re being ignorant.
Skepta
When you’re first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don’t know very much, and you know that you’re going to be ignorant and seem ignorant.
Lawrence Wright
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
Gore Vidal
You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.
William Cavendish
I would like the secular world to know that the Scriptures are about the things that we wrestle with every day. The Scriptures are not ignorant. Life is really hard. We know that things don’t always go well and that our hearts don’t naturally obey God.
Trip Lee
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It’s more important and it’ll last longer.
Wilbur Smith
I’ve never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I’m sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.
Cecily Strong
Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending s

Liberals are some of the most arrogant, condescending smart alecks, but they’re just pure ignorant, and they fit the bill of people who have no love and no respect for the founding of this country.
Rush Limbaugh
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant – that don’t come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on – and I can’t do that, and I’m not in that bracket at all.
Richard Attenborough
Call a man ‘ignorant,’ and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
P. J. O’Rourke
There’s nothing worse than a bunch of toothless, ignorant people yelling at you. It’s horrible.
Matt Riddle
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
There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
Art Malik
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum… she said, ‘Don’t worry about that, they’re just ignorant.’
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way.
Jesse Eisenberg
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
Julian Assange
I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
Aeschylus
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.
Desiderius Erasmus
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Marcus Aurelius
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
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
Benjamin Robbins Curtis
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
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby’s large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies are wonderful learners, but it is hard to avoid the impression that they begin as ignorant as bread loaves.
Paul Bloom
I think it’s important as an actor to stay really ignorant.
Will Sasso
I was naive and ignorant. I’ll never be like that again. But I can’t go back. I’ve come out. I can’t stick my head in the sand ever again.
Anita Bryant
To be accused of ignoring my roots is pig ignorant.
Chris Eubank Sr.
When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.
Tony Cardenas
I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
Richard Dawkins