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Ignorant Quotes

Sharp lines on ignorance, from playful to pointed.

This ignorant quotes collection ranges from a lighthearted jab at someone who asks too many questions to broader, more serious commentary on uninformed leadership. Continue with Know quotes for the flip side of this theme.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Marcus Aurelius

I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I'm mostly ignorant about.

Quotes by Lisa Hanawalt

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

Quotes by Lil Pump

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

Quotes by Kerri Walsh Jennings

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!

Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates

I would be ignorant to say colorism doesn't exist; it's gross and disgusting.

Quotes by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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.

Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Quotes by John Simon

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.

Quotes by John Perry Barlow

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Quotes by Jane Birkin

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

Quotes by James Monroe

I'm completely irresponsible, I'm afraid. I'm ignorant about money as a commodity - I have never really understood it.

Quotes by Ian Gillan

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

Quotes by Herbert V. Prochnow

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.

Quotes by Henry Hazlitt

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Quotes by Harlan Ellison

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Quotes by Hal Sparks

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Quotes by H. L. Mencken

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

Quotes by Gretchen Wilson

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

Quotes by George Ripley

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's the range of tone across these ignorant quotes?
It varies from a witty jab at someone who asks too many questions to a more serious comment about the risks of uninformed leadership.
Is there a quote suggesting everyone is ignorant about something?
Yes, one makes the point that everyone is ignorant, just on different subjects, which softens the word into something more universal than an insult.
Do any quotes touch on politics or leadership?
Yes, one reflects on the discomfort of an uninformed leadership situation compared with a past era of heightened global tension.
Is there a short, blunt quote about giving bad advice?
Yes, one describes the worst kind of advice as coming from someone ignorant giving it to someone acting foolishly, a compact jab at bad guidance.
Can these quotes be used for a caption about curiosity or asking questions?
Yes, the opening quote about someone who answers every question works well for a lighthearted caption on curiosity. See Know quotes for more on that angle.

One quote even reframes ignorance as universal, just spread across different subjects for different people. Explore About quotes and He quotes for more related reading.