Quotes About Ignorance

I know nothing whatever about politics," said Lord Chiltern. "I wish you did," said his sister,— "with all my heart." "I never did, — and I never shall, for all your wishing. It's the meanest trade going I think, and I'm sure it's the most dishonest.

When I was younger I did not understand how strong the heart can be. I should have known it, and I pay for my ignorance with the penalty of my whole life." Then he left her, kissing her on both cheeks and on her brow, and went to his bedroom with the understanding that he would start for London on the following morning before she was up.

And it must be explained that Miss Anne Prettyman was supposed to be specially efficient in teaching Roman history to her pupils, although she was so manifestly ignorant of the course of law in the country in which she lived.

It cannot be said that she was a bad woman, though she had in her time done an indescribable amount of evil. She had endeavoured to do good, failing partly by ignorance and partly from the effects of an unbridled, ambitious temper.

There were 10,000 stout fellows, as Daniel Defoe had written earlier in the century in The Behaviour of Servants, who would spend their last drop of blood against Popery but 'do not know whether it be a man or a horse'.

En líneas generales la vida se esfuerza, una y otra vez, por demostrarnos todo lo que ignoramos, lo que no queremos ver, y el poco control que tenemos sobre las cosas. Alrededor de nuestra pobre tranquilidad pasan cosas terribles, de las que nosotros no queremos enterarnos.

Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.

El guiar al pueblo no es cosa de un hombre culto ni de buenos principios, sino de un ignorante y bellaco (Los caballeros, 424 aC)

Obrar por ignorancia y obrar con ignorancia no son lo mísmo.

Again, those also who are ignorant of legal regulations which they are bound to know, and which are not hard to know, they chastise; and similarly in all other cases where neglect is thought to be the cause of the ignorance, under the notion that it was in their power to prevent their ignorance, because they might have paid attention.

Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune.

Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. … They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it. Rhetoric, fourth century BCE (BC)

As for the plea, that a man did not know that habits are produced from separate acts of working, we reply, such ignorance is a mark of excessive stupidity.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. -We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x. - ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro. - Puede que esté exagerando. Digamos x por e elevado a x.

The ladies were quite uninterested; either because they did not care for mathematics, or preferred to ignore birthdays.

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

Pelos padrões das eras passadas, era a Utopia. A ignorância, a doença, a pobreza e o medo haviam praticamente deixado de existir. A lembrança da guerra se desvanecia no passado, como um pesadelo que se dissolve com a alvorada. Em breve, ela estaria fora da experiência de qualquer pessoa viva.

but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as

was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand;