Quotes About Ignorance

As a reader with next to no knowledge of classical mythology, I approached 'The Aeneid' just as I would a contemporary poem or novel - and, despite my ignorance, I was rewarded with a rich and affecting portrait of, among other things, the memorably doomed love affair between Aeneas and Dido.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe.

I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is it's important for us to know what we don't know.

I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

Republicans don't give a damn about anti-Semitism. They just don't care.

I didn't know a damn thing about style.

I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

I never read tabloids, I never buy books or go on Perez Hilton, and I never ever watch the news.

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.

I always say that, I never talked about the NBA, I never talked about anything because I was just playing basketball for fun. I didn't think about being a professional and I didn't even know you could be signed.

I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.