Marjane Satrapi Quotes

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

People are not stupid.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.