Quotes About Ignorance

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.

We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I read the newspaper, but I live in my own little bubble.

I don't read the comments of fans, no.

Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Firing insults anonymously behind the keys of a message board, slandering other people's beliefs or opinions, this happens on a daily basis in my comment section or on my feed. Cyber-bullying and, further, online social ignorance, is a very real problem, typically without any real consequence.

People don't realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.

When I moved to Dunfermline, it was the first time I realised how different I looked to everyone else who grew up around me. That is where I learned about ignorance and hate. I think, for them, they had probably never seen a black person in their life.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

The great thing about being young and dumb is that you don't know what you can't do.

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Sheriff Root: Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers Deputy: How you reckon that, Sheriff Root? Sheriff Root: Kinda thing they do Deputy: What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that? Sheriff Root: MARTIAN niggers

Fear and realization of ignorance were strong medicines against stupid pride.

The person who holds a PhD in aerodynamics may know little about human relationships. The person lettered in psychology may know almost nothing about physics. While we may develop a great deal of knowledge about one small facet of the universe, we remain ignorant beside the immense ocean of knowledge. In the light of our great ignorance, where is the rationale for pride?

Germany's decision to go to war was taken by a small clique with disregard for the consequences of such an awesome step: 'a constitutional monarchy with a collective cabinet responsible to parliament and the public would not have acted in such isolation and ignorance and, for this reason alone, would have decided differently.'[84]