Ignorance quotes

“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

“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

“Ronnie, I need your help. Because as much as I know about laptops, I don't know shit about computers...”
Zac Efron - Matt Brody

“I don't even know what hydrogen is.”
Winona Ryder - Myra Gale Brown

“- Paul Stephens: Who's Anne Frank?
- Jenny Anderman: Um, a girl in my English class.”
Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens
Cynthia Nixon - Jenny Anderman

“Ignorance is not the same as innocence.”
Sammi Rotibi - General Amajagh

- Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta", "Caramel", or "Treblinka"...
- Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
- Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
- Claudia: You moron!
- Bernice: I hope my water... (continue) (continue reading)
Jessica Lundy - Bernice
Alison La Placa - Claudia

“- Jim Hudson: Ignorance.
- Chris Washington: Who?
- Jim Hudson: All of 'em. They mean well, but, they have no idea what real people will go through.”
Stephen Root - Jim Hudson
Daniel Kaluuya - Chris Washington

“- 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

“Isn't it nice to know a lot... and a little bit not...”
Lilla Crawford - Little Red Riding Hood

“Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody... and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or if you're Jimmy Buffet. Nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, down, sideways or in fucking circles. Least of all, stockbrokers, right?”
Matthew McConaughey - Mark Hanna

“And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that Man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals.”

Graham Kartna - Homeschooled Boy

“I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything.”
Vincent Price - Shelby Carpenter

“Ignorance is bliss. For the first time in my life, I agree.”
Armin Mueller-Stahl - Hannon Fuller

“- Frank Adler: We've discussed this ad nauseum.
- Mary Adler: What's ad nauseum?
- Frank Adler: Oh, you don't know? Well, looks like someone needs school.”
Chris Evans - Frank Adler
Mckenna Grace - Mary Adler

“- 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 know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?”
Lou Costello

“- Tum Tum: What is this? A Mercedes Benz?
- Colt: It means peace, pizza brain.
- Tum Tum: Peas? I hate peas...”
Chad Power - Tum Tum
Max Elliott Slade - Colt

“She thinks fellatio is a character in Shakespeare.”
Michael Weston - Ben

“- Chief Constable: He seems to recognize you, Doctor.
- Ludwig Frankenstein: I never saw this... man before in my life. I know nothing about him.”

Leyland Hodgson - Chief Constable
Cedrick Webster Hardwicke - Dr. Frankenstein

“- Bank Manager: I'm innocent.
- Earl: Nobody's innocent. There are just the guilty, the ignorant, and the unlucky.”
Robert Larriviere - Bank Manager
Bill Paxton - Earl

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

“- Mr. Henderson: Do they know something we don't?
- Dr. Allen Chamberlain: They are led by a woman. What does a woman know?”
Stephen Dunham - Mr. Henderson
Jonathan Hyde - Dr. Allen Chamberlain

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”
Garson Kanin