Ignorant Quotes

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.