Quotes About Ignorance

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Every time an idiot dies, your IQ goes down.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.

In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without even knowing that's what he's doing.

Los pedantes se irritan siempre de que conozcamos tan bien como ellos su mezquino oficio.

L'incivilimento dei costumi, il progresso delle idee durante l'ultimo secolo è opera d'una minoranza esigua di spiriti illuminati; la massa resta ignara, feroce quando può, sempre egoista e gretta, e si può scommettere fondatamente che tale resterà sempre.

I've said a million times that if more stupid people killed themselves over stupid songs, there would be less stupid people in the world.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

Thinking that we know more than we do, therefore rejecting what we are given as experience, blinds us to our ignorance, which is the deep darkness where truth abides. And our wealth of ignorance grows and multiplies. Much

When people feel they know who to blame or to snicker at, they seldom feel the need to know more.

She said, "I think most people feel a difference between their real lives and the lives they have in the world. But they ignore their souls, or hide them, so they can keep things together, keep an ordinary life together. You don't do that. In your own way, you're kind of—pure.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A

as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it.

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

Por eso afirmaba que, para contrarrestar el estado de ignorancia y estupidez que podía acarrear a los trabajadores lo mecánico de su tarea, la educación era indispensable y debía ser financiada, para quienes no podían costeársela, por el Estado o la sociedad civil.

Solo un idiota puede ser totalmente feliz.

You think you know everything. But you don't. Life and people are right in front of you and you act superior and make jokes but it's just a cover for the fact that you're scared.