Quotes About Ignorance

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

Few moments in life are more gratifying than those when the arrogant are exposed as the ignorant.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.

He either doesn't hear me or isn't listening

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.

But then maybe i don't want to know. Maybe it;s nicer not knowing.

We cannot erase the past, but we can adjust our present to the lessons history teaches. Instead of denying or condemning old offenses, we should seek to understand them. We must not allow injustices to recur out of ignorance or wishful thinking.

They had no thought for the meaning of Christmas and had planned to have a wildly merry time.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there's a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.

You may have been paired with someone who doesn't know and tries to mask that lack of knowledge with indifference.

Pinker quotes Chomsky's remark that 'ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries' and continues: 'I wrote this book because dozens of mysteries of the mind, from mental images to romantic love, have recently been upgraded to problems (though there are still some mysteries too!)' Well, cheerfulness sells books, but Ecclesiastes got it right: 'the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

metric fixation has elements of a cult. Studies that demonstrate its lack of effectiveness are either ignored, or met with the assertion that what is needed is more data and better measurement.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.