Quotes About Ignorance

We all find reasons to accept sugary fables and ignore unwelcome tidings.

but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?

Like the blind men of the proverb, each individual feels a piece of the elephant, and the enormity of what he has found is overwhelming enough to convince each blindly groping observer that he has found the essence of the beast. But the whole beast is far more enormous and vastly more terrifying than society as a whole is prepared to believe.

I have no time to justify you, fool, youre blind, step aside from me

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.

Pastors who do not know Greek are forced to borrow their ideas from others. They are slaves to the commentators, but have no means to check their accuracy. The best tools of interpretation are beyond their reach. Not even the English translations they use are completely trustworthy. Worst of all, without thorough training in Greek they may discover that they are passing on in the name of God their own ignorance, based upon erroneous interpretations.

It's not what you know about money—it's what you don't know that can wipe you out.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

Getting your feelings hurt is not an offense. Feeling ignorant around someone is not an offense. Being made angry is not an offense.

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.

Am I boring you, Hirad?" "What do you think?" "Your ignorance is not my concern," said Denser. "Gods falling, Denser, I've been dead ten years. There are gaps in my knowledge." "There were plenty of those when you were alive." "It was part of my charm," said Hirad.

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.

A lie that is accepted by a sufficient number of ignorant voters becomes a political truth.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

They got it all wrong. They think they're doing good with their fight and their ignorance and discrimination and all that. But really, they're killing the earth with it.

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.

What may be very entertaining in company with ignorant people may be tiresome to those who know more of the matter.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.

En la actual polémica, mientras nuestra sociedad se detiene en una ignorancia mojigata, haríamos bien en recordar lo mucho que hay en juego: la salud de los hambrientos y la conservación de nuestro legado más precioso, el medio ambiente.

The heart of secularism is a functional atheism. Rather than rejecting the idea of God, our culture simply ignores him.