Michael K. Powell Quotes

My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

The public's not stupid.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

People don't understand complex issues.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

From the very beginning. I didn't know what the fast-food rules were.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

There has been an alarming increase in the number of things you know nothing about.

Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.

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

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.

What ignorance there is in human minds.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

You see, we didn't know.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.