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Quotes About Ignorance

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I'll stop the whole production: 'Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.'
~ Kevin Hart
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in the world that did not appeal to me. It was so easy to make a blanket statement when I was improvising only: 'Stand-up's terrible.' It's so ignorant and stupid to do that. But it's easy to do that. So that's where I came from.
~ Kurt Braunohler
I have a hard time arguing with stupid people.
~ Carl Hart
Stupid people are ruining America.
~ Herman Cain
Proper stupidity is fascinating.
~ Ricky Gervais
You can't legislate against stupidity.
~ Jesse Ventura
Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.
~ Robert Greene
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
~ William Gaddis
You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.
~ Kenya Moore
You can't argue with stupidity.
~ Jermaine Jackson
Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
~ Charles Bukowski
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
~ Louise Bogan
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
~ Douglas Coupland
Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity.
~ Suzanne Fields
Stupidity without malice isn't horrible; some people can't help it.
~ Ricky Gervais
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
~ Gustave Flaubert
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.
~ Lauren Bacall
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
~ Lewis Black
The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
~ Bill Buford
I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it and realize what's happening in the bigger picture.
~ Carmen Carrera