Top 100 Ignorance Stupidity Quotes
#1. It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
Walter J. Phillips
#2. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Mark Twain
#3. How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?
Sorin Cerin
#4. The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer
#5. The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
Willie Dixon
#6. The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Aldous Huxley
#7. Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.
Ted Agon
#8. You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.
James Lee Burke
#10. I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.
Bill Maher
#11. When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.
Auliq Ice
#14. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith
#15. I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.
Travis Culliton
#16. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.
Odin Zeus McGaffer
#17. A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn't help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#18. Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
Aristophanes
#19. He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
Michael Lewis
#20. Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead
#22. The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.
Voltaire
#23. good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well,
David D. Hammons
#24. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#25. Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
John Steinbeck
#27. Stupidity is an unfortunate consequence of lousy genetic heritage. Ignorance is a choice.
Rowan Manahan
#28. Embellishing a story for whatever reason proves you're a liar. Doing it in front of someone who knows the truth proves your stupidity.
D.S. Mixell
#29. Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.
Suzy Kassem
#31. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#32. Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#33. Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
Carl Sagan
#34. People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own.
Auliq Ice
#35. To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
#37. Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
#38. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#39. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It
George MacDonald Fraser
#40. Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.
V.S. Carnes
#41. Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the non-thought of received ideas.
Milan Kundera
#42. Sometimes, someone can want something so much that they ignore to see the truth. That is called stupidity.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#43. Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.
Auliq Ice
#44. Reviewers do not read books with much care ... their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
Anthony Burgess
#45. British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.
Scott Anderson
#46. God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Iain Pears
#48. The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.
William C. Brown
#49. Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity, unfortunately, is permanent.
Patricia King
#51. A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Franz Grillparzer
#52. The prince is blind to subtlety. He knows his own ignorance and stupidity so is ever suspicious of others, especially when they say things he does not understand. One cannot negotiate when dragged in the wake of emotions.
Steven Erikson
#53. The frantic stupidity of Wall Street's stock order routers and algorithms was simply an extension into the computer of the willful ignorance of its salespeople.
Michael Lewis
#54. I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
Sarina Bowen
#55. Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I'm ignoring behind me. Instead, it's most certain to drop it on top of me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#56. I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
#57. I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.
Robin Sacredfire
#58. Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.
Thomas C. Foster
#59. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
#60. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#61. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#62. Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!
Maliheh Sadat Razavi
#63. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#64. Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance.
Robin Sacredfire
#66. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#69. Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#70. Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...
Elizabeth Janeway
#71. There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Gene Wolfe
#73. Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#74. Don't ever mistake silence for ignorance, when it is obviously stupidity
Josh Stern
#75. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#76. Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
Ronald Reagan
#77. Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.
Augustine Of Hippo
#78. You can't believe everything you read - or hear. Accepting things at face value without the need to question and dig deeper is ignorance at best, stupidity at worst.
Vivian Eve
#79. The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.
Hamid Drake
#80. I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it.
Michelle Franklin
#82. Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
#83. You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#84. The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.
Auliq Ice
#85. Ignorance didn't feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it. "That
Beth Cato
#86. Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis
#87. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#88. We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
Aldous Huxley
#89. It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. Prejudice is not a symptom of stupidity. Nor is it a symptom of evil. It is merely a symptom of ignorance.
The Prophet Of Life
#91. Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several
from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.
Jean De La Bruyere
#92. Americans are possibly the dumbest people on the planet ... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.
Michael Moore
#93. You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
#94. My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.
Michael Moore
#95. People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Sarah McLachlan
#96. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#97. Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge.
Lionel Suggs
#99. Against a stupidity that is in fashion, no wisdom compensates.
Theodor Fontane
#100. The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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