Quotes About Ignorance

He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.

I like to play the guy that has no self-awareness.

I would love to act, but I seriously do not know anything about it.

Seriously, some Americans just shouldn't leave the country.

That's what's most annoying - when people in this industry act like they don't know me. And they say it in a way where you can just feel that it's shade.

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

I don't know anything about baseball.

There's a lot of people that think I'm a terrible basketball player, so it's just gonna piss me off. And if it's people who think I'm good, I'll be happy. I'm just not gonna read it at all and stay content in my own mind.

The less you know, the more you believe.

That's always been really funny to me - someone who really stridently believes that they're right when they're so wrong in, like, the worst way. Not only do they believe that they're right, but they believe that everyone thinks that they're right, and are comfortable with that.

My ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed.

I THINK IT IS MONTAIGNE who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head

No arguments you may use, no facts you may present, no logic you may array will in the slightest affect these people," the Kansas editor William Allen White, who opposed the Klan in an unsuccessful race for governor, wrote. "They have no capacity for receiving arguments, no minds for retaining or sifting facts and no mental processes that will hold logic. If they had any of these they would not be Kluxers.

Evil is relatively rare; ignorance is epidemic.

If your world does not include enough access to different people, and their world does not include enough access to you, you are speaking from ignorance.

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.

There is no word in the English language that gets thrown around more freely by people who don't know what it means than "fascism." Indeed, the more someone uses the word "fascist" in everyday conversation, the less likely it is that he knows what he's talking about.

Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?' 'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct.

You people sit in your yamen [headquarters], and your horizon is your window sill,' he went on. `You are ignorant because no one dares to correct you. You might lose face and, what's more, some one might lose his head. You've retreated into your intellectual rat holes, having exposed only a posterior of vanity. Goddamn it, sir, you've all become insufferably stupid!