#nora

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#everything #how #ignorant #inexperienced #know

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#anything #form #highest #highest form #ignorance

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

#average #average man #carefully #cheerful #crumbs

His ignorance is encyclopedic. ↗

— Abba Eban

#ignorance

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#ignorance #mystery #name #omniscient #perfectly

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#ignorance #immemorial #knowledge #our #plane

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. ↗

— George Eliot

#cruelty #direct #effect #ignorant #kindness

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#altogether #beginning #both #crude #day

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#acting #auditions #because #blonde #blonde hair