I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Even though I’ve been putting out bodies of work for years, ‚Beauty Behind the Madness‘ felt like the beginning.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

Actor’s life is very long.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

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

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

In this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.

I feel like whatever you’ve done in your career, good or bad, it’s nothing but preparation for the big events to come.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

My only scheme was to be a rapper.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

My shows are not narratives.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

I’m not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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

I’ve enjoyed all the parts of my career.

To be honest with you, when I got into this I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

It’s a small percentage of people who do the 80-hour-a-week high-powered career thing, and they’re almost all men. Why? Well, men are driven by socio-economic status more than women.