Quotes About Ignorance

Ignoraba que las palabras pudieran pesar tanto.

he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

You see, people may tell you that Nazi Germany was built on anti-Semitism, a somewhat overzealous leader and a nation of hate-fed bigots, but it would have all come to nothing had the Germans not loved one particular activity - to burn. The Germans loved to burn things. Shops, synagogues, Reichstags, houses, personal items, slain people and, of course, books.

they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

Today, in the West, there are no good excuses for religious belief - unless we think that ignorance, reaction, and sentimentality are good excuses.

That left denial. If he pretended that he didn't have it, he could ignore the ways it was affecting his life. Denial sounded good.

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

How often have the frustrations of second-class citizenship and humiliating status led us into blind outrage against each other and the real cause and course of our dilemma been ignored?

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance.

We must recognize that Jesus was nailed to the cross not simply by sin but also by blindness. The men who cried, "Crucify him," were not bad men but rather blind men. The jeering mob that lined the roadside which led to Calvary was composed not of evil people but of blind people. They knew not what they did. What a tragedy!

To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.

Ä°nsanlar anlaÅŸmay? baÅŸaram?yor çünkü birbirlerinden korkuyorlar; birbirlerinden korkuyorlar çünkü birbirlerini tan?m?yorlar; çünkü birbirleriyle iletiÅŸim kurmam??lar.

I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they don't communicate with each other, and they don't communicate with each other because they are separated from each other

Wir sind gewohnt das die Menschen verhoehnen was sie nicht verstehen.

You are aware—or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware—that

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.