The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

- Albert J. Nock

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

- Carl Hiaasen

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

- Barry Gibb

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

- Bodhidharma

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

- Bertrand Russell

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- Benjamin Franklin

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

- Abu Bakr

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

- Amos Bronson Alcott

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

- Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

- Allan Bloom

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

- Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

- Anthony Bourdain

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

- Anna Quindlen

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

- Aeschylus

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

- Adora Svitak

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

- Adora Svitak