Quotes About Ignorance

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness—perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things, and of the sentiment of feather'd, wooded, river, or marine Nature generally.

So in Psalm 73, when life is inequitable, the speaker is aware of a skewed relationship in which one is less than human: When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you. (Ps. 73:21-22; cf. 102:7-8)49

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Walter Cronkite "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that "no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he's free." That's becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we've lost.

When it comes to politics, "the facts far exceed our curiosity." "...A few executives here and there read them. The rest of us ignore them for the good and sufficient reason that we have other things to do....

Die Bibliotie ist die größtmögliche Form der Ignoranz gegenüber Büchern. Biblioten lesen nicht nur grundsätzlich keine Bücher, sondern leugnen sogar schlankweg ihre Existenz!

Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192)

Quererse a uno mismo, despreciando o ignorando a los demás, es presunción y exclusión; querer a los demás, despreciándose uno mismo, es carencia de amor propio.

La ignorancia emocional se conoce con el nombre de alexitimia, y significa incapacidad de lectura emocional.

I position myself relentlessly as an idiot at IDEO," Bennett observes. "And that's not a negative, it's a positive. Because being comfortable with not knowing—that's the first part of being able to question.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

All those people in their black-and-white worlds - they have no idea what they're missing

Cavemen and dinosaurs didn't know what sustainable development was.

Everything is easy when you don't know how to do it.

The self-esteem of ignorance ignores wisdom."

They will always judge you for what they don't know how to do.

Those who do not know peace think that hell is paradise."

Until you have discernment, ignorance will be your main source of wisdom.