The law succors the ignorant. [ Law Maxim ]
Whoever is ignorant is vulgar. [ Cervantes ]
Into contradicting
Be thou never led away;
When with the ignorant they strive,
The wise to folly fall away. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. [ John Dryden ]
Custom is the guide of the ignorant. [ Proverb ]
Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. [ Horace ]
Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. [ Cleanthes ]
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool. [ Moliere ]
The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
So long as you are ignorant, be not ashamed to learn. [ Proverb ]
Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. [ Condorcet ]
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age. [ Proverb ]
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Through the arts the wonder of the ignorant multitude is excited. [ Anaxilaus ]
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. [ Benj. Disraeli ]
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. [ La Place ]
The wise man knows well that he does not know; the ignorant man thinks he knows. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Ignorant people are to be caught by the ears as one catches a pot by the handle. [ From the French ]
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant are more learned than their ears. [ William Shakespeare ]
A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. [ Carlyle ]
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. [ Emerson ]
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. [ Carlyle ]
Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance. [ Zimmermann ]
Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. [ John Dryden ]
There never was any party, faction, or sect in which the most ignorant was not the most violent. [ Pope ]
Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. [ John Ruskin ]
It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another. [ William Shakespeare ]
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. [ Metastasio ]
The mind of man is ignorant of fate and future destiny, and of keeping within due bounds when elated by prosperity. [ Virgil ]
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity, is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. [ Plutarch ]
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]
Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]
Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them. [ Colombat ]
A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been compared by the sages to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men. [ Saadi ]
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. [ Cicero ]
He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. [ Tillotson ]
At the age of sixty, to marry a beautiful girl of sixteen, is to imitate those ignorant people who buy books to be read by their friends. [ A. Ricard ]
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. [ Pope ]
A man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach, either of real good breeding or good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute points of fashionable etiquette. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]
The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. [ Shaftesbury ]
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]
So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]
A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]