Quotes About Ignorance

Prior to having babies, I thought - I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth. Perhaps they worry the truth might actually set the captives free.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

I actually don't know how magazines are produced, I'll be honest with you. I have no idea.

I never went to any disco, I didn't know anything about dance.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I'm much better at things if I believe in them, and a lot of those little teenage starlet roles, they have problems, too, and a lot of movies just ignore that.

When you're a teenager, you think you're invincible. You don't listen to anyone.

Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

You don't grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.

There were signs, for sure—bruises and missing teeth—but nobody wanted to see them. If they did, they'd have to act. So they ignored them. And the beatings continued. Nobody wanted to get involved in other people's business, especially their business behind closed doors.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

In one of the most dramatic scenes in the Bible, God speaks out of the desert whirlwind. "Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance? Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers!" (Job 38:2–

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

Because humanity is part of nature, it should be no surprise that people act consistently with natural law. But for most of us, this is a new idea. In our culture we have been taught to ignore our relationship to nature, to treat nature simply as the stage or background that we use, adopt, tolerate, or oppose, as the case may be.