Quotes About Ignorance

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as people did all over Europe, and indeed, even in Germany herself.

The question people ask me all the time is, 'How was it playing a gay character? How was it pretending to love a man?' And I don't mean to be abrasive, but that's just the stupidest question in the world to me. To assume there is a difference is ignorance. You're born a certain way. I was born loving women. I could have been born loving men.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

You've never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it's just - I can't think of anybody more dangerous as president than Donald Trump. I can't think of anything worse than with him not having a clue. I mean, could you imagine somebody who doesn't read and doesn't learn trying to deal with the day-to-day changes and challenges of that job?

Believe me, I do not go to Delhi, I do not know anybody in Delhi.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.