Quotes About Ignorance

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy teenagers?

Everyone speaks of it, few know it.

There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has longer shelf life.

The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.

There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Ignoramus: a person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

Ignorance is no excuse-it's the real thing.

Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Everyone has an opinion about things they don't know much about. You just have to tune everybody out.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

I remember turning onto the street. I saw barricades and police officers and, just, people everywhere. When I saw all of that, I immediately thought that it was Mardi Gras. I had no idea that they were here to keep me out of the school.

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.