Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

I would never advocate anyone doing anything without educating themselves and finding out exactly what they're in for.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?

People should always know better.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease.

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

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

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.

We are all ignorant, just about different things.