Quotes About Ignorance

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

Betting on football had been banned and, if anything, things got worse. I'd bet on horses instead. I knew absolutely nothing about horses.

Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

It's become a cliche to stare in mute horror at Donald Trump's endless stream of Twitter vomit, wondering what chthonic god finds pleasure in watching us writhe as Trump brings out the very worst in his followers and new levels of willful ignorance from Republicans determined to see no evil, no matter how in their face that evil is.

Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.

Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners in crime. Rogue economics is turning the global market into our worst nightmare.

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

Food technology classes at school were so dull. Even as a 14-year-old going through the ignorance of my black-nailed 'goth' phase, my interest in food was much deeper than those shop-bought pizza bases we were instructed to haul in and smother with tomato puree and ready-grated mozzarella.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

This is the real problem feminism faces. Too many people are willfully ignorant about what the word means and what the movement aims to achieve.

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.