Camille Paglia Quotes

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.

When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

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 ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Error is worse than ignorance.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"