Quotes by Ignorant It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant. Alexander Fleming ignorant drug men 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. Alexander Pope ignorant party animal 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 ignorant law tree The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows. Alfred the Great ignorant exciting men The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound. Alice Sebold time-and-change ignorant damage 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 ignorant students school We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. Allan Bloom shepherds ignorant civilization A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. Allen Johnson ignorant history thinking A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant. Ann Aguirre ignorant instinct partners But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Anna Akhmatova ignorant poetry night Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness. Anna Brownell Jameson ignorant echoes mind 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 ignorant speech reason-why Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age. Anne Bradstreet ignorant youth age I've lived in a bubble my whole life. I never thought someone with those kind of views, who came across to me so ignorant every time he speaks, could ever be elected. Ansel Elgort ignorant kind views 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. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ignorant fool thinking I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. Anthony Bourdain brooklyn ignorant careers I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant. Anthony Bourdain ignorant frustration culture The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. Aristotle ignorant differences men Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. Aristotle obstinate ignorant people To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature Aristotle ignorant «1234567891011»