Quotes About Ignorance

I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy—what would you think? I wouldn' think nuffn; I'd take en bust him over de head—dat

But it's awluz jis' so; people dat's sot, stays sot; dey won't look into noth'n'en fine it out f'r deyselves, en when you fine it out en tell um 'bout it, dey doan' b'lieve you.

He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was all done by

If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.

What a dim-witted slug the average human being is.

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

Say, do we kill the women too? Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on. Kill the women? No; nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you're always as polite as pie to them; and by and by they fall in love with you, and never want to go home anymore.

It ain't so much the things that people don't know that makes trouble in this world, as it is the things that people know that ain't so.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

To this end it furnishes them an abundance of Catholic priests to teach them to be docile and obedient, and to be diligent in acquiring ignorance about things here below, and knowledge about the kingdom of heaven

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.

Old war-worn captains are hard-headed, practical men. They do not easily believe in the ability of ignorant children to plan campaigns and command armies. No general that ever lived could have taken Joan seriously (militarily) before she raised the siege of Orleans and followed it with the great campaign of the Loire.

So I learned then, once and for all, that gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.

Elle arrive enfin sur le trône, cette infâme religion, et c'est un empereur faible, cruel, ignorant et fanatique qui, l'enveloppant du bandeau royal, en souille ainsi les deux bouts de la terre.

what a dull-witted slug the average human being is.

Of course there are people who think they never lie, but it is not so—and this ignorance is one of the very things that shame our so-called civilization. Everybody lies—every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception—and purposely. Even in sermons—but that is a platitude.

To succeed in life you need two things: Ignorance and confidence

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Stigma" is a dressed-up word for ignorance and prejudice.

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—the relative you cringe to kiss.

Se estaba despidiendo y ni siquiera lo sabía.

I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.