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Quotes About Ignorance

That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?
~ Simon Pegg
In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.
~ Andrew Lincoln
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
~ Michel Montaigne
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
~ Plutarch
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
~ Jonathan Swift
I hate books; they teach us only to talk about what we do not know.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
~ J. Bartlet Brebner
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
~ Owen Meredith
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.
~ Buckminster Fuller
None are so blind as those who will not see.
~ Anonymous
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
~ Bernard Berenson
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
~ Will Rogers
The causes of mistakes are "I didn't know"; "I didn't think"; and "I didn't care."
~ Henry H. Buckley
Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A fool's head never whitens.
~ Old saying
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
~ Louis Armstrong
Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
~ Karl Kraus
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
~ Voltaire
A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.
~ Nicolas Boileau
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare
A white wall is the fool's paper.
~ French proverb
Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers