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Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.
~ Dr. Paul Hauck
Evil is a word used by the ignorant and the weak. The Dark Side is about survival. It's about unleashing your inner power. It glorifies the strength of the individual.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Presume that people don't know and, therefore, inform them, so that knowledge is shared. Presuming knowledge, when absent, just furthers ignorance.
~ Dudley Sharp
So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019
~ Dudley Sharp
Harry Yeah I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention.
~ Dumb & Dumber
It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
~ Peg Bracken
We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
~ Jules Renard
Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.
~ Sophocles
We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
~ Karen Armstrong
A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
~ Arthur Miller
To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.
~ Confucius
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.
~ Thomas Reed
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
~ Dante Alighieri
Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.
~ Leander Perez
Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
~ George Orwell
Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.
~ Ray Dalio
All I know is that I do not know anything
~ Socrates
All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.
~ Jethro Tull
It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sometimes we don't see what it is we don't want to see.
~ Jilliane Hoffman
The unbelieving world increasingly rejects the truth about God, while the believing world increasingly ignores the truth about God.
~ Jim Berg