Ad-Rock Quotes

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

You've gotta be slightly stupid.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

People are stupider than anybody.

Innocence is ignorance.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.

Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

Stupidity is without anxiety.

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.

You can't fix stupid. There's not a pill you can take, or a class you can go to.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

Here's one thing I never say anymore: These people can't be that stupid, can they?

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

The education is the answer to everything, really, and on so many different levels. The minutiae of life require analytical skills that you learn in being educated, an ability to navigate the very systems that constitute life. They all require some degree of education, and if you don't get it, you're at a real disadvantage.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Brain so good could've sworn you went to college