Quotes About Ignorance

I know nothing about hip-hop... There's only so many times you can grab your crotch and prance around stage. I'm gonna get slammed now for this.

I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.

When anti-choice men talk about abortion, you get the feeling they really have no idea what they're talking about - they haven't done even the slightest bit of research about how hard the choice really is and how painful the experience really is.

No matter how much I read the news, I feel slightly ignorant all the time.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I didn't even know how to judge 'Die Hard 1.' It's not anything I know how to judge. I'd never seen an action movie. I'd never seen a Sly Stallone movie or an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Charles Bronson movie. And that is the truth.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I was not too smart and constantly mouthed off and didn't know anything.

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.

Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility. Our

Then after that I asked this fella what rights he had that we were offendin', and he said, well, he didn't know, but he must have some rights he didn't know nothin' about.

It's just more mushroom farming, ain't it – keep us in the dark and feed us shit…

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

No matter if Judeo-Christian rhetoric claims peace and understanding, they do so with one foot upon a grave- mound of separate traditions who don't acknowledge and submit to the restriction and ignorance of monotheism.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

In our time the most warlike nations are the most rude and ignorant.

Men have seemed miraculous to the world, in whom their wives and valets have never seen anything even worth noticing. Few men have been admired by their own households.