Quotes About Ignorance

He followed matters closely but never soiled his hands, so that he could profess ignorance of the whole matter.

the dividing line will not be Mason & Dixons but between patriotism, & intelligence on the one side & superstition, ambition & ignorance on the other.

Significantly, Rockefeller surrounded himself in the early 1890s with brand-new men who could defend his past with total sincerity—and total ignorance

It was from ignorance on how the great business was founded.

His mama is so stupid she thinks Meow Mix is a dance album for cats.

Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing.

The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Buscaba el Paraíso porque ignoraba que era un lugar inexistente.

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things, and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it.

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

There is no sin as great as ignorance. Remember this.

To discuss medicine before the ignorant is of one piece with teaching the peacock to sing,' said the hakim. 'True courtesy,' Kim echoed, 'is very often inattention.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

What I learned is ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorance. You can't help or contribute to this planet without knowing what's really going on.

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.

Ignorance." In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.

root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance. So we cultivate the ignorance, go to great lengths to celebrate it, even.