A Quote by Jim Rohn

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

Jim Rohn

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Jim Rohn
American - Businessman
September 17, 1930 - December 5, 2009

Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

R. Scott Bakker

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

Saint Augustine

I was kind of ignorant. Being naive - 'who cares, how many people in the world, okay, my vote won't count' - that's kind of ignorant thinking, and I totally migrated from that. I clearly took that for granted for eight to 10 years.

Bradley Beal

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

Nikki Glaser

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

Saadi

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

H. L. Mencken

Wherever there is an ignorant mass, you will see a flag of an ignorant leader fluctuating with glory!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

Vernon Howard

He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

George Henry Lewes

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Julian Assange

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Sydney Smith

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish