Quotes About Ignorance

La ignorancia de la propia ignorancia acompaña firmemente al conocimiento.

It has been said that a specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

The mass of people was ignorant, driven by fashions, fads, and the tongues of orators...

Honesty doesn't excuse ignorance. But it helps.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.

Éramos demasiado jóvenes para saber que al conductor no le importaban nuestras canciones.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes and to have french fries with your mom be enough.

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

Our problems don't stem from our ignorance so much as our disobedience of that which we know to be right.

None of them knew the color of the sky.

LCVI If I should cast off this tattered coat, And go free into the mighty sky; If I should find nothing there But a bast blue, Echoless, ignorant,- What then?

People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. Stephen, they say, accusingly, you know a lot. This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.

Gaia listened carefully to this wise counsel and - as we all do, whether mortal or immortal - ignored it.

Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know.

The fool doth think he is wise, yet it is the wise man that knows himself to be the fool As You Like It, Act 5, Scene 1

Wicked men never learn, for wicked men have no interest in myths, legends and stories. If they had they would learn from them and triumph, so we must be glad of their ignorance and dullness of wits.

Curiosity has wrongly, by those with a vested interest in ignorance and their own revealed truths, been traduced and eternally characterised as a dangerous felicide, but you, dearest of dear, dear readers, know that Curiosity lights the way to glory.

Ask a stupid person, you'll get a stupid answer.

Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life.