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Quotes About Ignorance

One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances.
~ Frank Herbert
Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.
~ Frank Herbert
How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.
~ Frank Herbert
The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.
~ Frank Herbert
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
~ Frank Herbert
I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
~ Frank Herbert
Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.
~ Frank Herbert
The Fremen are civil, educated and ignorant," Scytale said. "They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
~ Frank Herbert
Cehalet ile bilginin, vahÅŸilik ve kültürün kesiÅŸmesi... ölülerimize gösterdiÄŸimiz sayg?yla baÅŸlar.
~ Frank Herbert
when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?
~ Frank Herbert
Nedostatak znanja priziva najve?e strahove.
~ Frank Herbert
A suposição de que um sistema inteiro pode ser levado a funcionar melhor com um ataque a seus elementos conscientes denuncia a atuação de uma perigosa ignorância. Essa tem sido em geral a abordagem daqueles que se dizem cientistas e tecnólogos.
~ Frank Herbert
ignorance reduces the shock of some experiences
~ Frank Herbert
But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.
~ Frank Herbert
OkumuÅŸ cahiller ordusu yarat?yorlar. Hiçbir ÅŸeyi ÅŸansa b?rakm?yorlar. Zincirler! Yapt?klar? her ÅŸey insanlar? zincire vurmaya, köleleÅŸtirmeye yönelik. Ama köleler mutlaka isyan eder.
~ Frank Herbert
If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
~ Frank Herbert
The freman are civil, educated and ignorant. They are not mad. They are trained to believe not to know. Believe can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
~ Frank Herbert
Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
~ Frank Herbert
Te advierto que la ignorancia se convierte fácilmente en histeria.
~ Frank Herbert
Una de las cosas mas peligrosas en el universo es un pueblo ignorante con motivos reales de resentimiento. Pero no hay nada tan peligroso como una sociedad informada e inteligente que mantenga esos resentimientos.
~ Frank Herbert
One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances. The damage that vengeful intelligence can wreak, you cannot even imagine.
~ Frank Herbert
The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the ignorant approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.
~ Frank Herbert
Probability is always an expression of the human limitation of knowledge and is never some facet of nature.
~ Frank J. Tipler