Quotes About Ignorance

There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he had become one. He had shut things out.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when

All that wasted time, and he didn't even know who'd wasted it.

She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when you tell them to stop, they don't hear you.

Women collect grievances, hold grudges and change shape. They pass hard, legitimate judgments, unlike the purblind guesses of men, fogged with romanticism and ignorance and bias and wish. Women know too much, they can neither be deceived nor trusted.

Everybody knew. Nobody admitted to knowing. If other people began to discuss it, you tuned them out, because what they were saying was both so obvious and so unthinkable.

What I have always assumed in him to be bravery may be merely an ignorance of consequences. He thinks he is safe, because he is what he says he is. But he's out in the open, and surrounded by strangers.

Eu gostaria de não ter vergonha. Gostaria de ser sem vergonha. Gostaria de ser ignorante. Então eu não saberia o quanto era ignorante.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

Why is it that really beautiful people think everyone else in the world exists merely for their amusement?

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Why would I care about the tittle-tattle of the uninformed? Ignorant gossip.

Why would I care about the tittle-tattle of the uninformed?

Ignorieren ist nicht das gleiche wie Ignoranz, man muß etwas dazu tun.

Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?

It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon. He neatly deflated the pompous and exposed the ignorant and the bigoted, and he did it in such subtle ways, drawing his victims out by his seemingly courteous interest, that they never were quite certain what had happened until they stood exposed as windy, high flown and slightly ridiculous.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.