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Quotes About Ignorance

For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance about the world, convolved with ignorance about himself.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The failure of the U.S.'s foreign adventures often seems to have its roots in the U.S.'s total ignorance of things on the ground, of the countries that they fiddle with.
~ Peter Carey
If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.
~ Ry Cooder
When someone is saying something bigoted, try and remember that that person actually just doesn't understand, and that it comes from a level of ignorance, or from socialised brainwashing, or religious ideas.
~ Courtney Act
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.
~ Orson Bean
Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
~ John Prine
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
~ Julianna Margulies
Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.
~ Gayle Lynds
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
~ Julian Assange
There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.
~ Art Malik
I think it's important as an actor to stay really ignorant.
~ Will Sasso
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
~ John Simon
When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.
~ Diane Kruger
People really should examine themselves to determine why they are so hateful, cruel, and ignorant.
~ Kenya Moore
So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.
~ Chad Hugo
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
~ Sophocles
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
~ Suzanne Fields
Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.
~ Johannes Tauler
Bullies are just ignorant.
~ Josh Hutcherson
I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
~ Hal Sparks
I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.
~ Gretchen Wilson
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
~ Janis Ian
Anti-Semitism is a rotten thing. It's an ignorant, stupid, horrible thing. As is anti-Muslim feeling. They have to be together.
~ Miriam Margolyes