Quotes About Ignorance

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound. - Carol Kennicott

Actually, the great traveler is usually a small mussy person in a faded green fuzzy hat, inconspicuous in a corner of the steamer bar. He speaks only one language, and that gloomily. He knows all the facts about nineteen countries, except the home-lives, wage- scales, exports, religions, politics, agriculture, history and languages of those countries. He is as valuable as Baedeker in regard to hotels and railroads, only not so accurate.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his supposed learning;

The power of hail and snow springs from a cloud, and thunder from the fire of lightning. Strong men destroy a city, and a tyrant enslaves people through their ignorance. A ship once out of port is hard to capture: know this now before it is too late.

He's hopeless," sighs Suze. "You know, he can name about a hundred breeds of sheep but not one of Madonna's husbands.

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing you are enemy to kith and kin in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Ah! terrible is knowledge to the man Whom knowledge profits not.

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

The happiest life consists of ignorance, Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice. --SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

For dullards know not goodness in their hand, Nor prize the jewel till 'tis cast away.

never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness—blind!

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Apenas quero declarar que, sem saber, 435 manténs as relações mais torpes e sacrílegas com a criatura que devias venerar, alheio à sordidez de tua própria vida!

Knowledge's surest logic is the lack of knowledge.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.