Quotes About Ignorance

The people who know less are often more confident in public speaking than a person who understands much about the most important subject called life.

Upon seeing more the people , it feels strongly that nothing can be done against their foolishness.

When a person's mind is blind, all senses are useless not alone eyes.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

And 'tis most evident and plain that simple Nature is the most harmless, inoffensive, and virtuous mistress. 'Tis she alone, if she were permitted, that better instructs the world than all the inventions of man. Religion would here but destroy that tranquillity they possess by ignorance; and laws would but teach 'em to know offense, of which now they have no notion.

Silas deliberately ignored that question, which he knew was as much for him as it was for Uncle. It was going to be one of those nights where she'd sink her teeth into a topic and keep chewing and chewing at it.

Besides, love flourishes best in ignorance…or in absence.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Politics, these days, is no occupation for an educated man, a man of character. Ignorance and total lousiness are better.

Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

I'd closed my ears to my friends' horror stories about married life. "Ha! Now you get to argue about who should change the diapers." Or "What kind of food makes a woman stop giving blow jobs? Wedding cake!" Or "Oh boy, wait until she hits menopause." I paid no attention to any of that. "Just let me stumble into it," I told them. "I don't want to be forewarned.

We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the forces already in existence, our art to interpret emotions already felt. One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

One big war, an epidemic, and we collapse into ignorance and darkness, fit sons of chimpanzees.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

All the people that are so quick to say that, like, because I wear womenswear sometimes, that means I'm transitioning. People are just so ignorant and dumb sometimes.