Ignorant Quotes - page 23

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. (Joe Namath)
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the case. I listen to kids. I respect them... Some of them are as bright as any of the adults I've met. View quote
John Hughes
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. View quote
John Simon
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not. View quote
Julius Erving
People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot. View quote
Kenyon Martin
There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be. View quote
Marlon Wayans
I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that. View quote
Hasan M. Elahi
I usually live in my own ignorant, pop-culture bubble, so I don't really know what people are doing. View quote
Josh Thomas
I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies. View quote
Mary Badham
The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. (Mary J. Blige)
I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business. View quote
Matthew Lesko
People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater. View quote
Minnie Maddern Fiske
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people. View quote
Peter Oliver
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. View quote
Patricia Sun
I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted. View quote
Robin Wasserman
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. View quote
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. View quote
Susan Estrich
Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated. View quote
Suzanne Fields
I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people. (Tinie Tempah)
The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. View quote
Tommy Armour
I definitely have to admit that I am fairly ignorant, not just to 'Tron,' but almost any pop culture thing that I should know, at my age. I grew up without a television and rarely got to see a movie, so I didn't really see any of that stuff, and I haven't been able to catch up since. View quote
Tricia Helfer
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine. View quote
William T. Vollmann
Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care. View quote
Willie Wells