Quotes by Ignorant To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. Donald Hall ignorant grandfather years The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge. Donald Woods Winnicott gaps ignorant human-nature The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else's requirement but your own. Dorothea Lange ignorant territory mind You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide. Doug Graham ignorant soul book Canadians are like Americans, just less racist, violent, and ignorant. Dov Davidoff violent ignorant racist Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise. Douglas Adams zoologist ignorant talking I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. Eddie Redmayne ignorant fashion artist It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family. Edith Wharton fearless ignorant girl It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves Edward Bond ignorant seems Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume. Edmund Burke ignorant doe character Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. Edwin A. Abbott ignorant self hope He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ignorant personality may Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor. Elfriede Jelinek ignorant desire way Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. Elif Safak ignorant bears giving A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance. Eliezer Yudkowsky ignorant curiosity ignorance Tis the ignorant who boast. Elisabeth of Wied ignorant self-confidence ignorance It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain. Eliza Acton ignorant meals may 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. Eliza Leslie ignorant america people Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant. Elizabeth Gaskell ignorant girl knowing Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis. Elizabeth Kenny ignorant disease community «23456789101112»