Quotes About Ignorance

For Catherine, the lesson was that more than intelligence and goodwill were needed to break down the traditions, prejudices, and ignorance of both the owners and the serfs. She

After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

To make the Society Happy... , it is requisite that great numbers should be Ignorant as well as Poor," wrote Bernard Mandeville, the shrewdest and wickedest social commentator of the early eighteenth century.

To put an end to the spirit of inquiry that has characterized the West it is not necessary to burn the books. All we have to do is to leave them unread for a few generations.

Berlin in particular had once been a thinking man's paradise, though now, to Einstein's horror—indeed, to the horror of the entire civilized world—all of Germany had become a bastion of willful ignorance and unequalled brutality. The

become a bastion of willful ignorance

I don't see how people go on living as stupid as some of them are.

Cliche is at the root of audience dissatisfaction, and like a plague spread through ignorance, it now infects all story media.

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.

Money is really made up. It is only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that this house of cards stands. He talked

He explained that once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in. That struggle is a moment to moment decision to learn to open or close one's mind... Unfortunately, for many people school is the end, not the beginning.

because it was expensive to not know the law.

Rich dad went on to explain that the rich know that money is an illusion, truly like the carrot for the donkey. It's only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held together by billions of people who believe that money is real. It's not. Money is really made up. It is only because of the illusion of confidence and the ignorance of the masses that this house of cards stands.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."104

Un bel giorno mi toccherà un colpo, uno di quelli che annientano una persona, e allora tutto finirà: finirà questo intrico, questo struggimento, quest'ignoranza, tutto, tutto, gratitudine e ingratitudine, menzogna e miraggi, questo creder di sapere e invece non saper mai niente. Però desidero vivere, non importa come.

human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

Their ignorance is so great they are terrified by a hint of the truth; a hint such as you are in yourself.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so

Most men would rather die than think

Grudging admiration filled him. There was strength in Anne Aimes; a strength born of ignorance.

They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade knedliky . It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.

Given these attitudes and lack of attendance, it is hardly surprising that the German masses (and most Europeans) were ignorant of even basic Christian facts.

When the Bishop of Gloucester systematically tested Church of England diocesan clergy in 1551, of 311 pastors, 171 could not repeat the Ten Commandments, and 27 did not know the author of the Lord's Prayer.