Quotes About Ignorance

They have never known pain

To be brave came more easily if you knew nothing.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

stupidity can be as bad as malice

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used? Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation. Poor lambs. That's not how I'd describe them. I was thinking of animal sacrifice. Ah. That's closer.

innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance" ~ Bernard Shaw

You can't miss what you never had. And definitely not what you don't understand.

There's some folks, that, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

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

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

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

When the chill winds of Rationalism swept over Europe, natural revelation was exalted at the expense of supernatural revelation. Man became intoxicated with a sense of his own ability and goodness, refused to listen and submit to the voice of authority that spoke to him in Scripture, and reposed complete trust in the ability of human reason to lead him out of the labyrinth of ignorance and error into the clear atmosphere of true knowledge.

the general trouble with ignorance is always that ignorant people have no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius. If you're stupid you can always blame miscalculation on bad luck.

as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance.

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not

I think you are hopeful because (excuse me) you are ignorant.

Being a domestic man, John decidedly missed the wifely attentions he had been accustomed to receive, but as he adored his babies, he cheerfully relinquished his comfort for a time, supposing with masculine ignorance that peace would soon be restored.

Innocent and ignorant as she was, the books she had read gave her some hints of the existence of sin and her woman's nature warned her when no other voice was near to save.