Quotes About Ignorance

The TSA must think we're mushrooms. You know, the way they are trying to keep us in the dark, and the way they keep feeding us a fertilizing agent that comes from the south end of a north-bound cow.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

I just hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that say 'I'm Stupid.' That way you wouldn't rely on them, and you wouldn't ask them for nothing.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

You shouldn't be criticized for being who you are, you should be accepted, don't let someone else ignorance become your problem.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

The fool who knows he is a fool is for that very reason wise. The fool who thinks himself wise is the greatest fool of all.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Many people don't see what's obvious.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

The only way out of ignorance is awareness for looking the fact.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things