Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
— Mark Twain
Bumbling Ignoring You quotations
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
I must remind you that starving a child is violence.
Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.
God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach.
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Thou shalt not kill: the four most important, and yet, most ignored words in all religious teachings. There is not an asterisk next to that commandment saying, “Unless you walk on all four and have fur, feathers, horns, beaks or gills.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
You are not entitled to your opinion.
You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem.
But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
You can love me or hate me but.. you can’t ignore me
Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.
If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week.
How far did you run?' ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?.... The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
Teach the ignorant as much as you can;
society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.