“Try calling a friend and an ignoramus.  Just don’t make the mistake of trying it with your wife.  All hell will break loose!

15 Punch Lines on “Ignoramus.”

1.       An ignoramus is not a man without answers; he is a man with answers for everything he has never studied.

2.       Ignorance is common.  Ignorance with confidence is where the real damage begins.

3.       The ignoramus does not enter the room to learn; he enters to perform.

4.       A fool may be corrected.  An ignoramus mistakes correction for persecution.

5.       Nothing is more exhausting than a man who knows nothing and insists on giving a keynote address about it.

6.       The modern ignoramus has replaced thought with volume and calls the result conviction.

7.       An ignoramus can turn a simple discussion into a hostage situation.

8.       Some men read the facts.  Others skim headlines, puff out their chest, and audition for the role of village expert.

9.       The ignoramus is rarely silent, because silence would expose the vacancy.

10.  When a man knows little but speaks much, the word ‘ignoramus’ stops being an insult and becomes a diagnosis.

11.  Confidence is useful; confidence without knowledge is just ignorance wearing elevator shoes.

12.  A committee of ignoramuses can still produce a polished memo, a glossy presentation, and a thoroughly stupid conclusion.

13.  The ignoramus believes every opinion deserves respect, especially his, no matter how cheaply assembled.

14.  Some people are wrong by accident.  The ignoramus is wrong as a lifestyle.

15.  The most dangerous man in the room is not always the crook; sometimes it is the ignoramus with authority, a microphone, and no sense of his own limitations.

3 Bonus Closing Zingers

• An ignoramus is not merely uninformed; he is uninformed with momentum.
• The world has always had fools, but modern life has given them bandwidth.
• He does not lack opinions.  He lacks the humility to notice he lacks the facts.