Quotes About Ignorance

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

A lot of my friends are gay, and certainly I have no tolerance for anyone who has any sort of ignorance or restriction on people's lives or love lives.

Hell is the moment you realize that you were ignorant of the fact, when it was true, that you were not yet ruined by desire.

I look at young people and marvel at their ignorance of what's coming, and the old people look at me.

We were inert targets at which to aim their certainty, and even if we knew they were wrong, the men couldn't even imagine not being right. So many of them would never know what was actually true.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?

Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.

glazed eyes staring stupid looking at nothing and seeing everything born of and into ignorance what society dictates we consume cattle gathering around learning devices called television

Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: Don't know, don't care.

You think I'm some inbred trailer-trash hick that watches the Springer show?

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

The zeal of fools offends at any time.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.