Quotes About Ignorance

You see, Willhem, he admits that he doesn't know the Law and yet he claims he's innocent. You're right there, but he can't seem to understand anything, said the other. K. said nothing more; why should I let the idle talk of these lowly agents - they admit themselves that's what they are - confuse me further? he thought. After all, they're discussing things they don't understand. Their confidence is based solely on ignorance.

they're probably law books, and it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

The books must be law books and it's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

I wouldn't know Robbie Williams if I fell over him.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

Tony Wilson once compared me to WB Yeats. It didn't really mean that much because I didn't have a clue who Yeats was.

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

There's nothing that winds me up more on Twitter than people who are stupid, and who say the most ridiculous things.

I don't know anything about the wine world at all.

It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

When I was little, I thought my country was the best on the planet. And I grew up singing a song called 'Nothing To Envy.' And I was very proud. In school, we spent a lot of time studying the history of Kim Il-Sung, but we never learned much about the outside world, except that America, South Korea, Japan are the enemies.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

The one thing that makes me nuts is if there's a problem or something that I don't know about.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.