Quotes About Ignorance

I don't know one note from another.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

Fools are without number.

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

Those who know the least obey the best.

When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they simply do not know the objects of their hatred. Ignorance is at the bottom of it.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.

The mark of a truly stupid man," he announced to Klara, "is that he takes his own occupation so seriously that he comes to believe it is superior to others.

There is no loneliness, I decided then, that is worse than being ignorant of the worth of your soul.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you? asked Milo. Much worse, he said longingly. But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

pounding down the mountainside, in a cloud of clinging dust and a chorus of chilling shrieks, came all the loathsome creatures who choose to live in Ignorance

The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace.

The dumbing down of America is proceeding apace. Juster's allegorical monsters have become all too real. The Demons of Ignorance, the Gross Exaggeration (whose wicked teeth were made "only to mangle the truth"), and the shabby Threadbare Excuse are inside the walls of the Kingdom of Wisdom, while the Gorgons of Hate and Malice, the Overbearing Know-it-all, and most especially the Triple Demons of Compromise are already established in high office all over the world.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.