Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.
Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.
Don't drag the engine, like an ignoramus, but bring wood and water and flame, like an engineer.
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
Philosophers don't all believe that ethics is just based on intuition. That's just stupid! It's ignoramus!
