Quotes About Ignorance

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Children don't heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

I broke a lot of rules because I didn't know the rules.

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

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Not knowing humiliation, you are ignorant of what it is to arrive at the last stage of yourself.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Isaac liked me because I was ignorant and that meant he could teach me, right? That made him feel like a man.

And think how he has been brought up-, free from all the superstition and ignorance that lead men to hate one another in the name of God.

For above all the dread and uncertainty in which ignorant people lived like children in the dark – frightened of witches and wizards, of the Devil and evil spirits – above it all was the bright starlit sky of the new faith, showing them the way.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...

No one confessed the Machine was out of hand. Year by year it was served with increased efficiency and decreased intelligence. The better a man knew his own duties upon it, the less he understood the duties of his neighbor, and in all the world there was not one who understood the monster as a whole. Those master brains had perished.

a feeling that terrestrial facts must be ignored, and that the abolition of respirators was a positive gain.

Quando o amor se vai, é lembrado não como amor, mas como algo diferente. Felizes são os ignorantes, pois esquecem por completo, e nunca estão conscientes da insensatez e da lascívia do passado, das longas e inúteis conversações.

Cuando el amor se desvanece se le recuerda no como amor, sino como algo distinto. Bienaventurados los ignorantes que lo olvidan por completo, y no son conscientes de los anhelos y de los absurdos del pasado, de las largas conversaciones sin propósito.

Being clever they did not care for animals. One man had never seen a hedgehog. ~from The Longest Journey