Seth Godin Quotes

Sometimes misunderstandings between bloggers and the MSM are the result of simple ignorance.

Just because you know doesn't mean they know.

What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

Yeah, some people don't know anything about football.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

I don't think words reach people. Maybe nothing does

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

When you work with people who misunderstand you, instead of getting transmissions, you get transmutations, and that's much more interesting in the long run.

In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.

Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.