If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.
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.
With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!
Witchcraft to the ignorant,. . . . Simple science to the learned.
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.
You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.
Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
If the party of gloom is ever to regain its footing, it will have to start by understanding that those who defeated them are not a bunch of ignorant yahoos looking forward to Armageddon.
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!
Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.
When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.
Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant. '