ignorant man Quotes

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

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

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

... a rude, ignorant, uncouth man.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.