Ignorance Quotes

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
Sofia Vergara

Person, Thought, Put

It's almost like, when someone plays poker for the first time, they might be a professional poker player out of ignorance, just accidentally winning. That was how it felt in my first stand-up appearance.
Jonah Hill

Time, Someone, Winning

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

Education, Foundation, Imitation

If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
Carter Burwell

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

Fight, Give, Poverty

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
Edwin Armstrong

Accept, Trouble, Almost

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Bennett Cerf

Times, Worse, Ordinary

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Tryon Edwards

Another, Name, Mystery

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch

Difficult, Reputation, Save

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.
Janeane Garofalo

Fear, Hate, Long

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.
Eduardo Galeano

Time, Nothing, May

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.
Cornel West

History, Long, Working

In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance.
John Strachan

Great, Few, Both

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.
Mira Nair

Love, Time, Parents

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.
Richard Dreyfuss

Living, Process, Complete

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
William John Wills

Nothing, Found, Animal

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
Charles Dudley Warner

Call, Generation, Fortunate

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
David Eagleman

Life, Science, Teaches

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Jose Bergamin

Christ, Among, Marx

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Paul Davies

Good, Power, Knowledge

His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban

Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
Adam Pascal

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson

Art, Enemy, Hath

With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral.
James Bovard

Government, Death, Fear

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
Julianna Margulies

Bliss, Believer

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
Ron Reagan

Future, True, Past

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.
George Bancroft

Second, Interest, Adopted

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Paul Harris

Through, Exercise, Force

Ignorance is a menace to peace.
Paul Harris

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