Quotes About Ignorance

Social psychology comes into the picture here, because the answer that a truthful CFO would offer is plainly ridiculous. A CFO who informs his colleagues that "there is a good chance that the S&P returns will be between –10% and +30%" can expect to be laughed out of the room. The wide confidence interval is a confession of ignorance, which is not socially acceptable for someone who is paid to be knowledgeable in financial matters.

Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

objective ignorance accumulates steadily the further you look into the future.

there is a large amount of objective ignorance in the prediction of human behavior.

our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in.

can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Amos and I stumbled on the central flaw in Bernoulli's theory by a lucky combination of skill and ignorance.

our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance

Todo lo malo que se dice de la escuela nos oculta el número de niños que ha salvado de las taras, los prejuicios, la altivez, la ignorancia, la estupidez, la codicia, la inmovilidad o el fatalismo de las familias

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

Once one has experienced emptiness, he is not likely to fall back to egoic thinking, unless he has an impulse to ignorance.

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

the past century has shown that dumb minds can do extraordinary damage.

I suppose it's true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.

the reading of many books brings wisdom, and the reading of one brings ignorance armed with rage and hatred.

pois uma grande quantidade de livros nunca é perigosa, enquanto um só livro sim, é perigoso; disse-lhes que não os rasgassem porque a leitura de uma grande quantidade de livros conduz à sabedoria, e a leitura de um único à ignorância armada de loucura e ódio.

Intervemamos, hasta los mas ignorantes, porque de amor y viajes y enredos todos podemos hablar, y decir sentencias que suenan cuanto mas sabias, sobre todo al senalar los errores de los que, lejanos, se someten a la memoria ajena, severa y mentirosa.

Intervemamos, hasta los mas ignorantes, porque de amor y viajes y enredos todos podemos hablar, y decir sentencias que suenan cuanto mas sabias, sobre todo al señalar los errores de los que, lejanos, se someten a la memoria ajena, severa y mentirosa.

j'ignore à peu près tout de la gastronomie japonaise. Je sais seulement qu'ils consomment une quantité inimaginable de poissons. En fait, je répète ce qu'on dit habituellement à propos du Japon, je ne fais aucun effort de recherche. Je suis un parfait écho.

What you don't know cannot be beaten out of you.

Someone once said, "Those who don't read are no better off than those who can't read." How true.

Traditionally economics has ignored politics, but understanding politics is crucial for explaining world inequality.

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so. —Artemus Ward

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)