Quotes About Ignorance

I don't know anything about politics, so I don't do political material.

With all due respect, I am against dumb.

I don't know who Little Richard is.

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years old.

I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.

My mother was so ignorant of what could have befallen me and was probably so exhausted - she was one of the first generation of single parents as well - that it was all a bit overwhelming. So the naivety of parents meant we did have a certain amount of freedom.

You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

I never ever paid attention to any election.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I was always one who thought that if something is painful, you just ignore it and it will go away. That's not true.

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

I live in Palm Beach, where no one wants to hear bad news.

I think I've ignored it so much so that when the paparazzi are following me I really don't see them. You don't see them anymore.

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I don't really read the papers.

I don't read the papers. I don't want to read what the press says.

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

But in a cause-and-effect world, if we know the causes we can predict the effects. So "what is chance for the ignorant is not chance for the scientist. Chance is only the measure of our ignorance.