Quotes About Ignorance

In the diary you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand moved then as it does today, when we may be wiser because we are able to look back upon our former condition, and for that very reason have got to admit the courage of our earlier striving in which we persisted even in sheer ignorance.

I was barely seventeen. I was ignorant, missus. We grew up ignorant in Limerick...we're mothers before we're women. And there's nothing here but rain and oul' biddies saying the rosary. I'd give me teeth to get out, go to America or even England itself.

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it." —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

GÅ'upota ma pewien urok- ignorancja nie.

there's more stupidity in the universe than there are hydrogen atoms, and it has a longer shelf life

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance and its undoubtedly dire consequences for a while, as long as my strength lasts.

those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible.

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.

It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

Evidentemente, soy muy ignorante, la verdad es esa, y es muy triste para mi, pero esto supone una ventaja: El ignorante osa a más cosas. También estoy preparado para soportar todavía un poco la ignorancia y sus consecuencias -malas, de acuerdo- tanto como resistan mis fuerzas.

The distraction, the weakness of memory, the stupidity!

In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand thus moved as it does today, when the possibility of surveying our condition at that time does make us wiser, but we therefore must recognize all the more the undauntedness of our striving at that time, which in sheer ignorance nonetheless sustained itself.

los libros son códigos y es propio de este tipo de justicia que uno sea condenado no sólo inocente, sino también ignorante.

Ihre Sicherheit ist nur durch ihre Dummheit möglich.

it's in the nature of this judicial system that one is condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

You see, Willem, he admits that he doesn't know the Law and yet he claims he's innocent.

do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position.  They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. 

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.