Walker Percy Quotes

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

You hear things about certain people. When you hear someone was mean to a limo driver or a wardrobe lady, or someone was rotten to a fan, somewhere in your brain it gets stuck.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.

Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Few men have ever had a more labor saving contempt for learning.

I've always found it funny in life when you meet people who are incredibly stupid and incredibly confident at the same time. Actually, there is nothing funnier. I mean, Donald Trump is a perfect example: he's essentially a seven-year-old on a podium.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

I'm a slightly obnoxious person.

I'm a dummy from New Jersey.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.