Quotes of: Ignorance-is-bliss Keyword

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Bryant H. McGill

There is little or no point being chair of the Labour Party and being ignored when engaging with Labour ministers when you're trying to articulate something that affects ordinary people in society.

Colm Keaveney

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

David Horowitz

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

I think there's a level of ignorance, when, in the callowness of youth, you imagine that you are inventing the world for the first time. You imagine that your parents don't know what it feels like to fall in love.

Mira Nair

First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.

Nicholson Baker

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

Rosario Dawson

My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

Helen Reddy

You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.

Ami Ayalon

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Charles Caleb Colton

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

Note on Riggan's dressing room mirror: A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Riggan: [as Birdman] People, they love blood. They love action. Not this talky, depressing, philosophical bullshit.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Riggan: [as Birdman] Shave off that pathetic goatee. Get some surgery. Sixty's the new thirty, motherfucker!

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Mike Shiner: [showing a fried chicken to Riggan] That's a nice bird, man!

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Lady in Bar: You headed to Hollywood, Mike? Mike Shiner: No. Hollywood's heading here, Tabby.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Sam: What's so funny? Riggan: [Sam brought him some flowers] I can't smell it.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Riggan: She does look like she licked a homeless guy's ass.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

[last lines] Sam: Dad? Dad? [runs to window, looks out, looks down, looks up, laughs]

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Larry: Thank the Lord and pass the biscuits, I finally have an actor to dress.

Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)