Quotes About Ignorance

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Lastly, the two principal reasons behind most gun violence—stress due to poverty intensified by alcohol consumption—are largely ignored by the corporate mass media.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.—George Bernard Shaw

We only hate what we don't understand.

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

Most Americans get their news from corporate-controlled media. At the same time, right-wing interests and ideologues are buying up the major newspapers, radio and television stations across the country which people have looked to over the years for balanced reporting. Now too often, they find misinformation, outright deception and the fomenting of false fears in once-trusted media. Such manipulation of the news keeps people ignorant and confused about what's really going on.

Son muchos los que sostienen que no hay cosa más erótica que el poder. A mí me parece que no saben una mierda de erotismo...

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

All an arsehole knows about is shit. ~ Dogman

the more you learn the more you understand the size of your own ignorance.

The food of fear is ignorance, Mother Gundring used to say. The death of fear is knowledge. When you study a race of men you find they are just men like any others.

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

the "imperial dispositions of disregard": that which makes it possible—sometimes effortlessly and sometimes with strenuous if unremarked labor—to look away.

when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

their youth and their ignorance of who they were and what they really wanted.

Don't confuse me with the facts—I've already made up my mind.

People are afraid of anything they don't understand. When they understand, when they know the truth, they can do something about it.

in Socrates' words, he had committed sin by failing to know what was false and what was true.

It was a condition of sanity both to accept 'GDR-logic' and to ignore it. 'If you took things as seriously as people in the west think we must have, we would have all killed ourselves!

Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences.

Ce qui empêche les gens de vivre ensemble, c'est leur connerie, pas leurs différences . [Ensemble, c'est tout]

Et plus je l'ignorais, plus je tombais amoureuse de lui. C'était exactement comme je te disais tout à l'heure, comme une maladie. Tu sais comment ça se passe... Tu éternues. Une fois. Deux fois. Tu frissonnes et voilà. C'est trop tard. Le mal est fait. Là, c'était la même chose : j'étais prise, j'étais fichue.