#ignorant

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#old #old world #parents #peasants #were

I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#broadest #corresponded #dr #except #her

Ignore the ignorant. ↗

— Ricky Martin

#ignore

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expects #free #ignorant #nation #never

Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through “asexuality” (“without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs”). Each of them split in half: “Asexual organisms reproduce by fission (splitting in half). ↗

— Ray Comfort

#evolution #ignorant #misinformation #science #science

At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ignorance #ignorant #information #knowledge #panic

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

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#charms #i #ignorant #into #introducing

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. ↗

— M. F. Husain

#difficult #ignorant #know #language #make