Quotes About Ignorance

Just two years after hitting the top, I hit the bottom. I found myself penniless, deathly ill and getting a divorce. It was all a result of my ignorance. I didn't know how to handle everything that hit me at once.

Having a financially illiterate society is dangerous, and we have to do something about that.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

Anti-Semites are imbeciles and delinquents.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.

There is a danger, increasingly, that we're in a post-fact society where it seems my ignorance is as good as your facts.

In the ages of faith a very inadequate grasp of religion would pass muster; in these searching days none but the humble and the pure could stand the test for long, unless indeed they were protected by a miracle of ignorance.

Good planning that sweeps away ignorance will indeed reveal difficulties ahead, but that is no reason to quit and walk away.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Optimists are just bad-informed people

you can't sleep here because your colour will come off on the sheets, said the woman who had a sign for lodgings in her window, people was that rude and ignorant back then, they spoke their mind and didn't care that they hurt you because there was no anti-discrimination laws to stop them the only thing you can do is leave here and never come back, the policeman advised us when we went to complain

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.

He who does not know the truth is Ignorant, he who knows and not speaks up is Criminal. Bertold Brecht

To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.

Stupidity isn't invincible.

The man doesn't know his ass from his elbow.

Una delle principali cause della miseria delle scienze sta, molto spesso, nella loro presunzione di essere ricche. Scopo della scienza non è tanto quello di aprire una porta all'infinito sapere, quanto quello di porre una barriera all'infinita ignoranza.