Andy Rooney Quotes

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.

Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.