Ignorance quotes

“- Mr. Wormwood: Are you being smart with me? If you're being smart with me, young lady, you're going to be punished.
- Matilda: Punished for being smart?
- Mr. Wormwood: For being a smart aleck!”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood
Mara Wilson - 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.”
Rhea Perlman - Mrs. Wormwood

“Ignorance brings chaos, not knowledge.”
Scarlett Johansson - Lucy

“Our son doesn't know who Boz Scaggs is. We have failed as parents.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“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)
Jesse Plemons - Kurt

“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.”
Jon Michael Hill - Reverend Wheeler

“- Florentino: He talkin' loco... crazy... somethin' about a sick horse comin' to get us.
- Johnny Ringo: That's not what he said, you ignorant wretch. Your Spanish is worse than your English.”

Paul Ben-Victor - Florentino
Michael Biehn - Johnny Ringo

“- 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.”
Armie Hammer - Oliver
Timothée Chalamet - Elio

“I don't like locked doors around here man, they make me crazy! No more locked doors! Gracias.”

Jacob Vargas - Joker

“- Little Rock: Who's Bill Murray?
- Tallahassee: I've never hit a kid before. I mean, that's like asking who Gandhi is.
- Little Rock: Who's Gandhi?”
Abigail Breslin - Little Rock
Woody Harrelson - Tallahassee

“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.”
Tom Cruise - Joseph Donnelly

“- Bill Rago: Write why you're here.
- Pvt. Donnie Benitez: This is where they told us to be.
- Bill Rago: No, no. Write about the magical twist of fate that prompted you to gravitate towards this institute of imbeciles.
- Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery: What?
- Bill Rago: Write why you joined the Army!”
Danny DeVito - Bill Rago
Lillo Brancato - Pvt. Donnie Benitez
Kadeem Hardison - Pvt. Jamaal Montgomery

“- 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)
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, you start acting like one! Now sit up and look at the TV.”
Danny DeVito - Mr. Wormwood

“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?”

Florence Eldridge - Sarah Brady

Your quest of the absolute led you straight to a zero. For you who don't know Balzac, it concerns "A Shady Business".
Guy Decomble - 'Petite Feuille', the French teacher

“Any new country I go, I realize the less I know, and the luckier I feel.”
James Ransone

“A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”
William M. Holden - Paul Verrall

“Shakespeare was not meant for taverns... nor for tavern louts.”
Alan Mowbray - Granville Thorndyke

“- 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.”
Gregory Peck - John Ballantyne
Michael Chekhov - Dr. Alexander Brulov

“Knowledge is a fount, but unfortunately ignorance is a sea.”
Franco Zeffirelli

“- 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.”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang
James Shigeta - Wang Ta

The owners are businessmen. You say art to them, they say, "Art who?" No, all they know about is making money and money they make from people.
Jim Backus - Tom Culdane

“Ignorance, in the sight of the law, is no excuse.”
Cecil Parker - Claude (a.k.a. 'Major Courtney')

“What has happened to the world? That normal now passes as excellence? When did we lower our standards? There seems to be no expectation to go above and beyond what one might know, or might want to know. It seems people are blissful in their own ignorance.”
Jon Michael Hill - Reverend Wheeler