Abba Eban Quotes

Innocence is ignorance.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

For all of you out there who don't know what 'ignoramus' is, it's an ignorant lawyer.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

I don't know nothing about nothing.

The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.

We never knew how much we did not know.

In some ways, my naivete saved me.

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

I may be a bit innocent but I don't think I am that dumb.

There are ignorant individuals in every city.

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.

Some people are just naive to what they say.

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

I think sometimes naivety can be a gift.

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

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

Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Innocence is a pretty dangerous thing, you know. Revisit Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot' or, for that matter, Greene's 'The Quiet American' to find out how destructive it can be.

I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way.

When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that.