Quotes About Ignorance

Irony is wasted on the stupid

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

Most people are boring and stupid.

She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

Men scorn what they don't understand.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No matter how busy you make think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Adev?rata cunoa?tere este a-?i ?ti dimensiunea ignoran?ei.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

And so everything is supposed to hang on the speed of light but nobody wants to talk about the speed of dark.

He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless violence.

There's always somebody that doesn't get the word.