I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
– Margaret Atwood
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- When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant. – Abhijit Naskar
- We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it. – Jorge Luis Borges
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- Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better.- Pastel Orphans – Gemma Liviero
- Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don’t know any better. – Gemma Liviero
- If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will. – Billy Graham
- He stared at his feet. -œI’m still very ignorant,- he said, -œbut at least I’m ignorant about really important things. – Terry Pratchett
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. – Benjamin Franklin
- I live on shameless flattery…and vodka…but the two usually go hand in hand. – Vicktor Alexander
- In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. – Erol Ozan
- Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion. – Vishwas Mudagal
- Lost: Heartbeat. Last seen being chased away by an Irishman’s shameless grin. Reward if returned. – Whitney KE
- There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance. – IanAnthony Finnimore
- Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. – Jon Ronson
- No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind – Karl Marx
- We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
- Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me. – Dale Forehand
- There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him. – Chuck Black
- Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. – Erica Goros
- Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame. – Scott Stabile
- Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. – Jean Plaidy
- Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham
- The sun is free, it is still there to be enjoyed. – Margaret Atwood
- I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. – Margaret Atwood
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. – Margaret Atwood
- Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex. – Margaret Atwood
- Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go.You could not believe I was more than your echo. – Margaret Atwood
- … Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
- They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. – Margaret Atwood
- I didn’t much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. – Margaret Atwood
- Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. – Margaret Atwood
- It is shocking how many crimes the Bible contains. The Governor’s wife should cut them all out and paste them into her scrapbook. – Margaret Atwood
- More and more I feel like a letter-”deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. – Margaret Atwood
- I could end this with a moral,as if this were a fable about animals,though no fables are really about animals. – Margaret Atwood
- I follow suit, said the lion, vacating his coat of arms and movie logos; and the eagle said, Get me off this flag. – Margaret Atwood
- …yes, in the obscured sky a moon does float, newly, a wishing moon, a sliver of ancient rock, a goddess, a wink. – Margaret Atwood
- Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers. – Margaret Atwood
- Lose your temper and you lose the fight. – Margaret Atwood