Ignorance quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“- 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

“- Cop: Come on, we're headin' downtown.
- Sugar Bear: Where your warrant at?
- Cop: Behind that preposition.
- Sugar Bear: What?
- Cop: Didn't you go to school? You can't end a sentence with a preposition.
- Sugar Bear: Oh. Then, uh, where your warrant at, motherfucker?”
Ralph Price - Cop
Reginald Ballard - Sugar Bear