Mackenzie Rosman Quotes

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

My dad's not a big talker.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

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.

I have not been briefed.

We know a lot of things, but what we don't know is a lot more.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

How can a man with such huge ears hear so very little?

We never knew how much we did not know.

I think, at the end of the day, when you hear the same voice all the time, it goes in one ear and out the other when you're a player.

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

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

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

I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

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

If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.

I don't know enough to be incompetent.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.