#ignorant

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

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I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#i #i do #ignorant #know #many

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#author #focusing #i #i always #ignorant

I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#believes #either #i #ignorant #insane

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

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#anything #career #did #i #ignorant

The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#doctor #even #higher #his #ignorant

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#ignorance #ignorant #presume #understand #understanding

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. ↗

— Richard Attenborough

#argument #bracket #brain #come #dealing

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . ↗

— Anne Bronte

#deprived #girl #guard #her #herself