Proud Ignorance Quotes

#1. Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

J.C. Ryle

#2. English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#3. Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Buzz Aldrin

#4. Self editing is the path to the dark side. Self editing leads to self delusion, self delusion leads to missed mistakes, missed mistakes lead to bad reviews. Bad reviews are the tools of the dark side.

Eric T. Benoit

#5. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeremy Taylor

#6. I feel a sudden wave of homesickness, but not the kind that makes you sad. The kind that reminds you of who you are and where you come from.

Emily Giffin

#7. I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

Anna Quindlen

#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

#9. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it.

Anita Loos

#10. A whore Ailean may have been, but a loving, caring whore who adored his offspring and mate.

G.A. Aiken

#11. Willful ignorance is something to be ashamed of, not proud.

Christina Engela

#12. Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.

John Calvin

#13. Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

Sinclair Lewis

#14. But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Timothy Garton Ash

#15. We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#16. Play dead often and long enough and people begin to think you are.

Janet Tashjian

#17. Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

S. Leonard Rubinstein

#18. We all know the artfulness with which a dropped coin hides itself, and the job we have to find it again. There are thoughts which play the same trick on us, rolling into a buried corner of our minds; and there it is, they've gone forever, we can't put our finger on them.

Victor Hugo

#19. In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a delightful diversity of food and craftwork. It translates into closed pockets of oppression, ignorance, and abuse.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#20. Don't be fooled ...
If they gossip to you, they'll gossip about you.

Steve Maraboli