Ignorance quotes
200 ignorance quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Matilda
“Look, Miss Snit, a girl does not get anywhere by acting intelligent! I mean, take a look at you and me. You chose books, I chose looks. I have a nice house, a wonderful husband and you are slaving away teaching snot-nosed children their ABCs.”
- From the movie: Matilda
- From the movie: Lucy
“Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.”
- From the TV Series: Breaking Bad
“Our son doesn't know who Boz Scaggs is. We have failed as parents.”
- From the movie: Vice
“When we do have free time, the last thing we want is complicated analysis of our government, lobbying, international trade agreements, and taxbills. So it's no surprise that when a monotone bureaucratic Vice President came to power we hardly noticed. As he achieved a position of authority that very few leaders in the history of America ever...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Widows
“Now, ignorance is the new normal! In fact, ignorance is the new excellence! The less you know, the more seemingly you gain. Not to care is deemed to be smart.”
- From the movie: Tombstone
- From the movie: Call Me by Your Name
“- Oliver: Is there anything you don't know?
- Elio: I know nothing, Oliver.
- Oliver: Well, you seem to know more than anyone else around here.
- Elio: Well, if you only knew how little I really know about the things that matter.” - From the movie: Next Friday
- From the movie: Zombieland
- From the movie: Far and Away
“I tried to prove myself to you, but I know nothing of books, or alphabets, or sun, or moon or… All I know is Joseph loves Shannon.”
- From the movie: Renaissance Man
- From the movie: Wolfen
“In arrogance man knows nothing of what exists. There exists on this earth such as we dare not imagine; life as certain as our death, life that will prey on us as surely as we prey on this earth.”
- From the movie: Men in Black
“- Kay: We do not discharge our weapons in view of the public!
- Jay: We ain't got time for this cover-up bullshit! I don't know whether or not you've forgotten, but there's an Arquillian Battle Cruiser that's about to...
- Kay: There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Calamari Union
“We all know the circumstances forced on us in our early years: crowded homes, ignorance and hunger.”
- From the movie: Matilda
- From the movie: Inherit the Wind
“Youth can be so pure. What do you know of good or evil? What do you understand of the sum of a man's life?”
- From the movie: The 400 Blows
Your quest of the absolute led you straight to a zero. For you who don't know Balzac, it concerns "A Shady Business".
“Any new country I go, I realize the less I know, and the luckier I feel.”
- From the movie: Born Yesterday
“A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”
- From the movie: My Darling Clementine
“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern louts.”
- From the movie: Spellbound
“- John Ballantyne: That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.
- Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! This you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.” “Knowledge is a fount, but unfortunately ignorance is a sea.”
- From the movie: Flower Drum Song
“- Wang Chi-Yang: What do you know of marriage? What do you know of women?
- Wang Ta: Sir, what did you know of marriage and women when you married my mother?
- Wang Chi-Yang: Nothing. That is why I obeyed my father and married the woman he chose for me.” - From the movie: Meet Me in Las Vegas
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