Mark Twain Ignorant Quotations

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

We are all ignorant; just about different things.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes...

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.