Quotes About Ignorance

Problems accumulate over a long time while few see what's happening, except the assholes who profit from the disorder. And they add fuel to the fire so gradually no one notices the decline until suddenly everything goes to shit. Then, people die. In job lots.

I've always found it's easier to be ignorant.

Alles, was gigantische Formen annimmt, kann imponieren, auch die Dummheit.

Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war, they only think they do. Maybe the earth that drinks up the blood understands it and says: "How foolish is man. Of all the animals that lives upon me, he is the cleverest and the most foolish.

firestar: jayfeather what does mallow look like? jayfeather: i dont know, ive never seen any

a bully, but no brains.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.

He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

We do not undertake to quarrel with the laws of nature. Our ignorance oftentimes puts us in opposition to them, and a very expensive position we find it to be, because they never yield, and in the end, of course, we must.

Americans, who intellectually knew the rest of the world existed but didn't really believe it.

I had found the upper limit of my courage. Fortunately for me, there is no known lower limit to human stupidity.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you're a Londoner, is that it's better not to die at all.

but Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.

Sindermann knew that to ignore the past was to doom the future to repeat it.

Thompson was, by all accounts, a confident man, and not one to be inconvenienced by ignorance if it happened

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of ignorance, laziness, bigotry, superstition and filth and then beneath the cloak of political surveillance. Now...cyberspace exists exclusively to promote commerce, gossip and pornography. And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.

You... you don't look like a Jew,' she heard him mumble. 'What does a Jew look like, you fatuous bastard'? - 'Do you think I should have a nose like a boat hook, you stupid old prick!

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous in revealing your own ignorance, is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.

Major Felix Cowgill was the model of the old-style intelligence officer: a former officer in the Indian police, he was rigid, combative, paranoid, and quite dim. Trevor-Roper dismissed him as a "purblind, disastrous megalomaniac," and Philby, privately, was equally scathing. "As an intelligence officer, he was inhibited by lack of imagination, inattention to detail and sheer ignorance of the world.

In a craven and hierarchical organization, the only thing more dangerous than revealing your own ignorance is to draw attention to the stupidity of the boss.