How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant why not work at being informed?

We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

In order to maintain an untenable position you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is 'Keep your facts I'm going with the truth.'

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

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.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each other's habits thoughts and feelings as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

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

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was I could not remain ignorant of their import.

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?

I would not send a poor girl into the world ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her till deprived of self-respect and self-reliance she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

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.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

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

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

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.

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.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed miracles have ceased but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant miracles are still in vogue.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.