Quotes About Ignorance

He's dumb as a bag of fresh horseshit

Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

Holy expectation cannot coexist with worldliness, unbelief, indifference, and ignorance. It abhors backsliding and seeks the honor of God, the conversion of sinners, and the welfare of the church.

To these old hands, rock and roll sounded like musical illiteracy, the undignified, untutored keenings of woebegone Negroes, hicks, and juvenile delinquents.

And there's nothing in all human space that scares me like human leadership scared of facts.

Minden hÅ'stett forrása a háború, a legbalgább dolog a világon.

Aki az élet tragédiáit bölcs belátással akarná végigcsinálni, azonnal megfosztaná magát az élettÅ'l. Csakis a balgaság nyújt vigaszt: eltévelyedni, tévedni, tudatlannak lenni nem más, mint embernek lenni.

Quem, de três milênios, não é capaz de se dar conta, vive na ignorância, na sombra, à mercê dos dias, do tempo.

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

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?