Gavin Esler

Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world's problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world's problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.

Scottish Journalist

H. L. Mencken

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

American Writer

Giacomo Casanova

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.

Italian Celebrity

Jordan Peterson

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Canadian Psychologist

Flea

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

Australian Musician

Grantland Rice

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

American Journalist

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

French Poet

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

German Writer

Will Sasso

I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.

Canadian Actor

Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

Italian Psychologist

Use 'ignorant of' when someone lacks knowledge about a specific subject or fact.

Context Matters

'Ignorant' can sound critical; use carefully to avoid offending someone.

Sensitive Usage

Combine 'ignorant' with 'about' to discuss a broad lack of knowledge on a topic.

Collocations Usage

Use 'ignorant' when referring to a general lack of education or knowledge.

General Knowledge

People might be 'ignorant' because they've had no exposure to certain information.

Lack of Exposure

Calling groups 'ignorant' can seem prejudiced; use when necessary and with compassion.

Prejudice Warning

Describing someone's remark as 'ignorant' often implies it's unintelligent or thoughtless.

Intelligence Insult

In casual speech, 'ignorant' can be harsher, almost like calling someone 'dumb'.

Colloquial Intensity

Use 'ignorant' to describe actions or words, not people, to lessen offense.

Choose Words Wisely

 The first thing we usually do when someone disagrees with us is we just assume they're ignorant. They don't have access to the same information that we do, and when we generously share that information with them, they're going to see the light and come on over to our team.

On being wrong PIPE Kathryn...

 clearly unparalleled treasures and we said we need to protect this when you are looking at the ocean which to ignorant eyes appears on the surface relatively undifferentiated but it's obviously a wildly variable beneath how do you choose the hope spots that you

Taking care of the ocean...

 you trust and you look at them and they look at you and they seem to be dangerous and truly ignorant you then can become paranoid which raises the fear level and which makes you terrified and hoping that it will be over and then it isn't over it was a terrible

Inside the Tripper's...

 And most of these negative comments were passing remarks or assumptions. They would assume things about my sex life or my sex habits. They would assume I put myself or others at risk. But very often I would just be met with these passing ignorant remarks.

Our treatment of HIV has...

 with the sophistication of the modern world is through politics, and sadly you can have humane moral principles, you can classify, you can use logic on abstractions, and if you're ignorant of history and of other countries, you can't do politics.

Why our IQ levels are...

 awareness on the topic of nature a lot of young people that I work with through in spray painting they don't really care about nature as such and a lot of people quite ignorant to it my artwork is the only thing I can do myself to help

Street Art Inspired by...

 we're going to keep pouring oil all over our mental engines and suffering the consequences now to begin to overcome our ignorant of the role of brain chemistry and brain circuitry it's helpful to work on what we biologists

Your brain is more than...

 could see creatures as big as whales or elephants actually flying not through the air but through this liquid like atmosphere I think we are currently ignorant actually about the real realistic diversity of life elsewhere

Bizarre Alien Life Forms...

 it's their duty to protect those who don't know any better -- in this case, the ignorant gaijin -- from making the wrong choice. Let's face the way I wanted my tea was inappropriate according to cultural standards,

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 on clay tablets, the Earth's volumes remained inscrutable to humans. We were geologically illiterate, unaware of the antiquity of our own planet and ignorant of our connection to deep time.