Quotes About Ignorance

I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

There's a great difference between innocence and ignorance.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

I wanted to see how much of an insult it was to be called an ignoramus. I didn't know what it meant; I just Googled it.

Do you know how big of an insult that is to me - to say that I had to be brave to confront some ignorant white folks?

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

I try to ignore the Internet. It's an evil, evil place.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it. Make no mistake about it,

Wisdom is the fruit of communion; ignorance the inevitable portion of those who "keep themselves to themselves," and stand apart, judging, analysing the things which they have never truly known.

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

I think that I was born on a day God was fast asleep. And whatever happened after my birth was nothing but dreamless ignorance.

My children are horrified at the histories. But the young tend to be such ninnies. Don't you agree?

you wouldnt knew a good thing if came up and slit your throat!

Learned fools exceed all fools

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.

the free rights of men to destroy themselves through ignorance.