Quotes for All
The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Gardiner Spring
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. G. M. Trevelyan
We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say G. L. S. Shackle
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts. Ezra Pound
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. Evelyn Waugh
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what’s been taught and what’s been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you … Read more
Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, ‘I’m ignorant.’ Eva Mendes
Why cast yourself over a cliff, deciding in your writings about things of which you are ignorant? Why do you not keep to what you have received from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church? You introduce novelties! Eusebius
Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain. Euripides
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. Euripides