Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Most people in the country didn't - and might still not - know about how powerful the United States is. They think North Korean weapons are the best in the world, and they're very proud of them. They believe they can protect the country from anyone.

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant, and I ignore the paranoid. If the shoe fits anyone, wear it.

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'

I like the fact that the weather forecast is always wrong. In a world of BlackBerry insta-connection, Google research, and Hadron Colliders, it is a daily reminder of the ultimate ignorance of man. It is a signpost towards all the enormous things we cannot understand.

There are those who say that we can happily ignore the lies and menaces spread on social media, that what appears on screen really doesn't matter, that anything goes on the web, and so on. But such people have their heads in the sand.

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

I don't have a computer. I don't know anything about that. I don't even know what a website is.

I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy.

I don't know nothing about no marriages or nothing. I ain't even never been to a wedding.

When I got married in 1991, I had never been to a wedding, so I didn't know that my wedding was tacky. I didn't know that I was getting married in a quinceanera dress, because there was nobody there to cry over me and tell me I look like a fool.

I was as staunch a Rangers supporter as any wee boy could be without being bigoted. We did a lot of stupid things. We sang the songs, but with no real feeling, and didn't have a clue what we were singing about.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

I never turn on the news over the weekend, short of a nuclear detonation somewhere. I just don't. I don't learn anything from it anymore.

In an age of political correctness, even the most apparent gender assertions are dismissed as ignorance.

Addressing politics in my music' is such a phrase, a sentence on paper, that I hate. That's not really me because at the end of the day, I wasn't a political science major and I wasn't educated in that sense so I hate when people talk about things they don't know anything about.

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.

I don't know a lot about politics.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.