Quotes About Ignorance

He ignored the obvious on X rays.

science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

But he did not hear us:

Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Rationality is man's basic virtue, the source of all his other virtues. Man's basic vice, the source of all evils, is the act of unfocussing his mind, the suspension of his conciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man's means of survival and therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction; that is anti-mind, anti-life.

The Council of Scholars has said that we all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not known by all do not exist.

After a while Hem's and Haw's confidence grew into the arrogance of success. Soon they became so comfortable they didn't even notice what was happening.

Fighting is the last resort of the ignorant!! -- Dr. Strange

humanity is a hunchback who, in ignorance of the fact that it is possible not to be hunchbacked, for thousands of years has sought an indication of a Higher Necessity in his hump, because he will accept any theory but the one that says that his deformity is purely accidental

that according to Hogarth humanity is a hunchback who, in ignorance of the fact that it is possible not to be hunchbacked, for thousands of years has sought an indication of a Higher Necessity in his hump, because he will accept any theory but the one that says that his deformity is purely accidental, that no one bestowed it upon him as part of a master plan, that it serves absolutely no purpose, for the thing was determined by the twists and turns of anthropogenesis.

specjalista to barbarzyÅ"ca, którego ignorancja nie jest wszechstronna

ignoramus et ignorabimus

We're all sticking our heads in the sand here, Kelvin, but at least we're aware of it and we're not trying to act noble.

the old doctrine of ignoramus et ignorabimus—"we do not know and will not know.

to Hogarth humanity is a hunchback who, in ignorance of the fact that it is possible not to be hunchbacked, for thousands of years has sought an indication of a Higher Necessity in his hump, because he will accept any theory but the one that says that his deformity is purely accidental, that no one bestowed it upon him as part of a master plan, that it serves absolutely no purpose, for the thing was determined by the twists and turns of anthropogenesis.

Dopóki nie skorzystaÅ'em z Internetu, nie wiedziaÅ'em, ?e na Å›wiecie jest tylu idiotów

The amount of information that is necessary for even a general grasp of the questions dealt with in the Project exceeds, to tell the truth, the brain capacity of a single individual. But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools; thus in the ocean of published papers that His Master's Voice has called into existence, a man can find whatever suits him, as long as he is not overly concerned about the truth.

Want to hear my favorite definition of a human? A creature who likes to talk most about what he knows least.