Quotes About Ignorance

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.

No country and no people can be free and ignorant at the same time.

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him;

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Un clásico es un libro que todos alaban y nadie lee

Bu hayatta ihtiyac?n?z olan ÅŸey, cehalet ve özgüvendir. Bunlar varsa, baÅŸar? kesindir.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.