Quotes About Ignorance

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

When we act ignorant as a community, we are not doing the right thing.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Let them eat cake.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

When a person is falling in love, they ignore the warning signs.

Estaba haciendo lo mismo que hacía siempre: agachar la cabeza, trabajar duro, hacer planes de futuro e ignorar el presente.

than the Communist Manifesto. The political religion that murdered tens of millions, imprisoned and tortured countless more, and immiserated the lives of half of humanity in its time, and the defeat of which required agonizing struggle by allies across borders, oceans, political parties, and generations—this hateful ideology is romanticized by ignorant young

as witness the story of Oedipus, hounded by the gods for marrying his mother, even in ignorance.

For this reason we should not take any confidence from the fact that our soul is contented and satisfied with what we have, given that it has no way of knowing its illness and its imperfection in this, if there is one. It is impossible to say anything to that blind man by reasoning, argument, or analogy that accommodates in his imagination any apprehension of light, color, and vision. There is nothing further that can make the sense evident.

As to the properties we call occult in a number of things, like the magnet's ability to attract iron, is it not likely that there are sensitive capacities in nature fit for judging and perceiving them, and that the lack of such capacities produces our ignorance of the true essence of such things? It is perhaps some particular sense that lets cocks know the hour of morning and of midnight, and moves them to crow

There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.

It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to learning, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

Los perfiles ideológicos se han desdibujado y en su lugar predomina una lucha de la inteligencia contra la estupidez.

what had destroyed the Earth was not any unforeseeable disaster at all, nor any sudden and irreversible calamity. No. Predictions were made and justified and proved to be valid, and then simply ignored for commercial reasons.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

J'ignore ce que c'est une dépression nerveuse, parce que pour moi c'est l'état normal de l'humanité." - Vingt questions à Romain Gary - L'affaire homme

Colonialists respect nothing. They would take creatures royal in their primitive beauty, serene in their ignorance, and noble in their qaked simplicity, and would twist them out of shape, distort their minds, contaminate them with their own ideologies and abstractions.

Or, il ne s'agissait nullement d'un délirant mais d'un cas extrême de cette connerie renseignée, informée sur tout, qui sait, qui « connaît » et à qui « on ne la fait pas ».

If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.

It's ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can't see nothing." – Snipes (185)