Quotes About Ignorance

We are indeed a blind race,' wrote a contemporary scientist, 'and the next generation, blind to its own blindness, will be amazed at ours.

On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review--as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.

A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself.

We are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature.

Religions are like glow-worms: they need darkness in order to shine. A certain degree of general ignorance is the condition for the existence of any religion.

There are tree main bulwarks of defence against new thoughts: to pay no heed, to give no credence, and finally to assert that it had already long existed.

as pessoas comuns têm profundo respeito ante os especialistas de todo o género. Ignoram que quem faz de um assunto a sua profissão não ama o assunto em si, e sim o lucro que ele lhe dá; e que aquele que ensina um assunto raras vezes o conhece a fundo, porque para aquele que o estuda a fundo não resta, em geral, tempo para dedicar-se ao ensino.

The life of a fool is worse than death[1].

Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long survive their mother. - On Religion

To be happy one must be as ignorant as youth, youth thinks that willing and striving are joys - it does not yet discover the unending character of desire and the fruitless of fulfillment, It does not yet see the inevitableness of defeat

Stupid people cannot see the inter-connections between natural phenomena, either when these phenomena occur on their own or when they are consciously controlled, that is, pressed into service as machines; they therefore easily believe in magic and miracles.

mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena.

Ignorance is degrading only when it is found in company with riches.

The entire dispute between materialists and spiritualists, which became so heated during 1855-56, is merely proof of the unbelievable vulgarity and shameless ignorance to which the learned profession has sunk as a result of the study of Hegelian nonsense and neglect of Kantian philosophy.

Those who speak of man's free will, and insist upon his inherent power to either accept or reject the Saviour, do but voice their ignorance of the real condition of Adam's fallen children.

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know. How to un-know, for example, that when people died of stone-dust, their lungs refused to be cremated.

Questions signified a vulgar display of ignorance.

There's so much data, but no one really wants to know anything, don't you think?

She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know.

She wondered how to un-know certain things

Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.