Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

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

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

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

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.

Inexperience loves to preach.

At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what?s coming ahead.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

Young people have been ill-educated, mis-educated, propagandized. I see it in everything I read written by young people. You can spot it a mile away, their ignorance. And it's coupled with they think they're the only people that know. They're arrogant. They're a little bit smarmy about what they think they know and nobody else does, which is a characteristic of young people anyway. I was that way when I was young.

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.