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Quotes tagged “Ignorance”

“The greatest threat to humanity is ignorance.”
— Abe Weinberg, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3: It's Comedy or Cabbage
Tagged: Threat, humanity, Ignorance
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
— H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy
Tagged: Democracy, pathetic, Belief, Ignorance, Collective Wisdom
“This is the mockery of a holy man! A man of whom every part is sacred, including his butthole, of which this town knows nothing.”
— Ra-Sharir, Documentary Now!, Season 3: Batshit Valley
Tagged: Mockery, Man, butt, sacred, Town, Ignorance
“We are making a stand for truth against lies and hate and ignorance and intolerance. We are going to show the country who we are. We're going to make a stand to ensure that we live up to our promise, to our potential, to our purpose as a country. They will either consume us, or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America”
— Beto O'Rourke, Beto O'Rourke Announces His Run For President In 2020
Tagged: Truth, Lies, Hate, Ignorance, Genius
“People hate what they don’t understand.”
— Martha Kent, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Hate, Ignorance
“A library is like an island in a vast sea of ignorance.”
— Justice Strauss, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Simile Examples, library, Island, vast sea, Ignorance
“Matt: She named the baby after Grandma.

Simon: She named the baby 'Grandma'?

Matt: Her name was Jenny, Simon.

Simon: Oh. I had no idea.”
— Simon Camden, 7th Heaven, Season 1: No Funerals and a Wedding
Tagged: Grandma, joke, humor, Ignorance, Baby
“Ash: Alright, look, we get this done quick enough, we might have time to stop for churros. And look, that's not a racist thing, Pablo. That's just a great dessert.

Pablo: You know I'm not Mexican, right?

Ash: That's the spirit!”
— Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 1: Books from Beyond
Tagged: Churros, dessert, Mexican, racism, Ignorance, Spirit, Cheeky
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: library, Ignorance, Island
“Gates: I hope you know what you're doing.

Captain Flint: So do I.”
— Captain Flint, Black Sails, Season 1: V.
Tagged: joke, Cheeky, Ignorance, Impromptu
“ALF: Ignorance is no excuse.

Kate Tanner: Ignorance is your excuse all the time!

ALF: I don't know what you are talking about.”
— ALF (voice), ALF, Season 2: You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog
Tagged: Ignorance, feigning ignorance
“Jason: You're saying a lot of words right now, and I only know some of them, like 'rat' and 'Jason,' but I know a little wisdom I can give you.

Michael: I know everything that happened in your life, and it was all stupid, so I highly doubt that.”
— Jason Mendoza, The Good Place, Season 2: Dance Dance Resolution
Tagged: joke, Stupid, Sassy, Wisdom, Ignorance
“Chidi: You are too selfish to ever be a good person.

Eleanor: Well, I think you're wrong.

Chidi: What country am I from, again?

Eleanor: Sensodyne.

Chidi: That is a brand of toothpaste.”
— Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place, Season 1: Flying
Tagged: Selfish, joke, Ignorance, Good
“I experienced the hate and the ignorance and it's scary.”
— Bobby Berk, Queer Eye, Season 1: Camp Rules
Tagged: Hate, Ignorance, scary, hurt
“Ted Baxter: Whatever happened to the good old days when they had wars in England?

Murray Slaughter: You'd find a way to mispronounce London.”
— Ted Baxter, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Bess, You is My Daughter Now
Tagged: Ignorance, England, London, Mispronunciations
“Jesse: Got some big cow house way out that way, like two miles, but I don’t see nobody.

Walter: Cow house?

Jesse: Yeah, where they live.

Walter: …

Jesse: The cows!”
— Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: cow houses, Ignorance
“The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and willfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.”
— Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA, Book 4
Tagged: Unpardonable Sin, Truth, Knowledge, Ignorance, prejudices
“Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: ‘Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking.’”
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words[7/29/2017] Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Tagged: Prejudice, Thinking, Ignorance
“They go as naked as when their mothers bore them, and so do the women, although I did not see more than one young girl. All I saw were youths, none more than thirty years of age. They are very well made, with very handsome bodies, and very good countenances. Their hair is short and coarse, almost like the hairs of a horse’s tail. They wear the hairs brought down to the eyebrows, except a few locks behind, which they wear long and never cut. They paint themselves black, and they are the color of the Canarians, neither black nor white. Some paint themselves white, others red, and others of what color they find. Some paint their faces, others the whole body, some only round the eyes, others only on the nose. They neither carry nor know anything of arms, for I showed them swords, and they took them by the blade and cut themselves through ignorance.”
— Christopher Columbus
Tagged: Natives, Indigenous, weapons, Ignorance, Colonialism
“Since [Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S.], I have acquired new wisdom ...or, to put it more critically, have discarded old ignorance.”
— Antonin Scalia, {{meta.pageTitle}}
Tagged: Supreme Court Decisions, Wisdom, Ignorance

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