Quotes About Ignorance

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?

Why do you condemn a man you've never seen, a man no one knows, a man you know nothing about?

There is no limit to stupidity. Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Flechas tengo para el corazón del sabio, Guiadas por la naturaleza infalible hasta el blanco, Pero cuando tiendo mi arco ante la multitud de la llanura, Los ignorantes sólo oyen al viento y a él todo lo atribuyen".

No doubt many a man who walks about and does his work is dying and ignorant of it, and many who lie abed all day are healthier than those who bring their food and wash them.

Another whispered low to his fellow, and said, "He is mistaken, for it is rather like an illusion created by some Sorcerer, as conjurers do at those great feasts." Of sundry doubts did they thus chatter and debate, as ignorant people are wont to do about things that are crafted more cunningly than they can comprehend in their ignorance, and they usually expect the worst.

It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!

Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.