Quotes About Ignorance

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

It has become the fashion to talk about Mysticism, even to pose as Mystics, and—need it be said?—those who talk the most on such subjects are those who know the least.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Fear is like mind-cancer; it is a disease of consciousness, a dysfunctional condition of ignorance trapped within a little picture.

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The one who knows much about anything knows far better than the uneducated how much he does not know about it.

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

I myself lived in London for 20 years, and I never knew my next-door neighbors. I never knew what they did. I never knew their names. They didn't know what I did for a living, and they didn't know my name.

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

I'm a movie nerd, and when I'm really looking forward to something coming out, the less I know, the better.

I was the network president. I thought I knew everything.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

Honestly, like, I'm a superfan of the 'New York Times,' but I know nothing about how they put it together, and I really don't care.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

I don't even read the newspaper; I don't read that crap.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

Even when they don't know who Nixon was, these shows will continue to play.

I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'