Quotes About Ignorance

We are under an invincible blindness as to the real and true nature of things

Si certains lieux publics avaient survécu aux répressions du régime, soit c'était pour nous laisser un espace de liberté, soit c'était de l'ignorance.

Historians say that revolutions come in a country not when things are at their worst but when they begin to improve, when an entire generation has been well fed, sheltered, and educated so that it feels its strength in a way previous generations, ignorant, ill fed, and unhealthy, did not.

ISO, FIRST TO GO! LAST TO KNOW!

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.

A mind risks real ignorance for the sometimes paltry prize of an imagination enriched. The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world—if only from time to time.

Freedom consists of being insulated from the envy and ignorance of the unimportant people who temporarily surround her.

You, sir, are a loathsome swine. Too damn ignorant to pour piss from a boot! Your odor offends me and my shell-like ear gapeth to hear thy screams of pain. I insist you avert your face and serve me a libation before I smite your sorry ass with the tip of my boot — you sniveling little cocksucker!

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

I wondered whether I wanted to hear more. The Jean business was long over, but even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.

Even when you have ceased to love someone, that does not necessarily bring an indifference to a past shared together. Besides, though love may die, vanity lives on timelessly. I knew that I must be prepared to hear things I should not like. Yet, although where unfaithfulness reigns, ignorance may be preferable to knowledge, at the same time, once knowledge is brutally born, exactitude is preferable to uncertainty.

Risk comes from not knowing what

When such men as Laurence Fitzgibbon were called upon to act as governors, was it not to be expected that the ignorant but still intelligent Bunces of the population should— "d––––n it all"?

But he never hears of anything. If two men fought a duel in his own dining-room he would be the last man in London to know it.

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.

Loughshane, according to Barrington Erle, was so small a place, that the expense would be very little. There were altogether no more than 307 registered electors. The inhabitants were so far removed from the world, and were so ignorant of the world's good things, that they knew nothing about bribery.

As for your sister, don't talk to me about her. I don't care two straws about your sister. You must excuse me, Major Grantly, but Lady Hartletop is really too big for my powers of vision.

And he has a much higher chivalry than that of the old poets. They, or their heroes, watched their women because they did not want to have trouble about them, — shut them up in castles, kept them in ignorance, and held them as far as they could out of harm's way.