5 Metaphors for ignorant

Before the revolution, they would not have known how to select, where all were objects of abhorrence; but now the most ignorant are casuists in the gradations of turpitude, and prefer Tallien to Le Bon, and the Abbe Sieyes to Barrere.

Beyond these limits he was as ignorant as dirt; but he had a cleverness which served as a substitute for book learning, and he seldom failed in impressing the people he met with the idea that he, Gomez de Montesma, was no ordinary man.

The greater number, and not the least known, are as ignorant as fishes.

I am not of that opinion; but, indeed, nobody can be more ignorant than I.

For we take the sign for the thing; yea, talk to the sign, and love it, or hate it, or worship itall the while being as ignorant as mules, "ne pictum quidem vidit;" the very sign may be as far from the reality, as in philosophy we see it every day.

5 Metaphors for  ignorant