Ignorant Uneducated Quotes

#1. A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise
and inexplicably
to be envied.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

John Fowles

#4. What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and the uneducated?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

James K. Polk

#6. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later:

Bram Stoker

#7. First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.

Steven Van Zandt

#8. An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

Michael Moore

#10. Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

Robert Genn

#12. You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

Christine Pelosi

#13. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

#14. I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.

Zach Johnson

#15. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.

Heather Lyons

#16. The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Robert Henri

#17. I loved New York - every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong - visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.

Ai Weiwei