Quotes About Ignorance

The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

Oh Senator, how could you be so cruel – and so ignorant of the true facts." "Facts are facts, Mrs. Byerson….There are no such things as true facts, for then we'd have to have false facts, wouldn't we.

What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about which they can know nothing and think they know a great deal.

I protect myself by refusing to know myself.

I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.

The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

Th' world's full o' jackasses brayin' an' they never bray nowt but lies.

You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people—they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!

Travel is a journey into one's own ignorance.

You gonna stand in my backyard and ignore me to my face?

When wicked or ignorant men govern, it is not surprising that virtue and goodness are not esteemed. For the former hate them, and the latter do not know them.

And what good has all your reading done you? Out of all the things you have read, how much has really stayed in your soul, what roots have grown there that will, in a good time, bring forth fruit? Examine your heart carefully. If you compare the whole of what you know with what you don't know, you will find that your knowledge is like a small stream dried up in the summer heat compared to the ocean of your ignorance. And even granted that you do know a lot, what difference does it make?

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.

Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?

We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.

Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?

But like many young men who grow up as privileged as Jack of Diamonds, he didn't suspect his own ignorance.

La mauvaise musique est jouée tous les jours, la bonne ignorée.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconsciously. Always ask: 'When I did that, what was I trying to gain?