Quotes About Ignorance

A paz que é dos que não conhecem e esquecem sem querer.

El principio de la ciencia es saber que ignoramos. El mundo, que es el lugar donde estamos; la carne, que es lo que somos; el Diablo, que es aquello que deseamos: los tres, en un Momento Culminante, mataron al maestro que íbamos a ser. Y aquel secreto que él guardaba, para que nos convirtiéramos en él, ese secreto se perdió.

Brothers in our ignorance, different vessels for the same blood, different forms of the same inheritance — which of us can deny the other? Deny your wife but not your mother, your father, or your brother.

I'm talking metaphysics? But all of life is a metaphysics in the darkness, with a vague murmur of the gods and only one way to follow, which is our ignorance of the right way.

I find it so irritating, the happiness of all those men unaware of their unhappiness.

Living in a sweet, fluid state of ignorance about all things and about oneself is the only way of life guaranteed to suit and bring comfort to the sage.

16 [74] [...] Ships that pass in the night and neither acknowledge or recognize one another [...]

Los clasificadores de cosas, que son aquellos hombres de ciencia cuya ciencia consiste sólo en clasificar, ignoran, en general, que lo clasificable es infinito y por lo tanto no se puede clasificar. Pero en lo que consiste mi pasmo es en que ignoren la existencia de clasificables desconocidos, cosas del alma y de la conciencia que se encuentran en los intersticios del conocimiento.

Tens um livro que não lês, Tens uma flor que desfolhas; Tens um coração aos pés E para ele não olhas.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.

He didn't have any use for history because he never expected to meet it again.

You got a least knowledge, the blind man said. That's enough. You know His name and you're marked. If Jesus has marked you there ain't nothing you can do about it. Them that have knowledge can't swap it for ignorance.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.

I don't even know what a feminist is.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in 'A Place Beyond the Pines,' and that's the first place where we'd seen him. And we're embarrassed to say that we didn't know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.