Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance is not about the amount of knowledge. It is about the mechanism of choosing actions. If one chooses actions based upon that which is known to be true - and tries hard to make that domain grow, the domain of knowledge, then he will be rational. Meanwhile, someone else who has much more knowledge might make decisions without paying any attention to truth. That person is ignorant.

For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people's most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country

when it comes to coping with evil, ignorance is our worst enemy.

Children, that's what a man needs—children, who know nothing about it.

They want us (the german soldiers) to be heroes, but they don't want to know anything about the lice.

Life was something too great, and death also had something too great about it; they were not to be played with. Having courage was a different thing from having no fear; courage was consciousness of danger, fearlessness mere ignorance.

never has there been an age in which so little knowledge is securely possessed, so little a part of the common understanding.

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

The boy Paco had never known about any of this nor about what all these people would be doing on the next day and on other days to come. He had no idea how they really lived nor how they ended. He did not even realize they ended.

Ülkeyi yöneten bir s?n?f var, ak?ls?z bir s?n?f. Hiçbirinin bir boktan anlad??? yok. Bu savaÅŸ bu yüzden ç?kt? iÅŸte.

That is what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

We both touched wood on the café table and the wait came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted not he, nor anyone else, nor knocking on wood or marble, as this café table-top was, could ever bring us. But we did not know it that night and we were very happy.

I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.

They should be rescued from ignorance." "Don't talk nonsense. Education is an opium of the people. You ought to know that. You've had a little." "You do not believe in education?" "No," said Mr. Frazer. "In knowledge, yes." "I do not follow you.

Looking back, he asks himself, "How could I not see?" But it is human nature to cling to our sense of reality, to resist its possible shattering even in the face of irrefutable evidence. I assure him that his "cluelessness" is not something to be ashamed of. This kind of avoidance is not an act of idiocy but an act of self-preservation.

he was blindly ignorant of history and therefore did not fear his role in it

People tend to think that scientists are experts in all things, when in fact we can be so specialized we know less than a layperson about many scientific topics—like bear behavior.

What have you learned?" She wanted to tell him that he was a peculiar and infuriating young man. "That people don't listen." "Precisely. Just because you can see the problems of an elliptical problem doesn't mean that others will listen. And that's what we do.

It's a childish worldview to choose what to believe and what not to in the face of the evidence. Playing peekaboo with the facts doesn't make them disappear.

He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. 'You're just not going deep enough,' Luke said. 'Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill, Perth