Quotes About Ignorance

Osiris stopped paying attention to how his kingdom was being run. That was willful blindness, and there is no blaming that on mere age.

not thinking about something you don't want to know about doesn't make it go away.

The things you can see, with even a single open eye. It's no wonder that people want to stay blind.

Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself.

What shall I say to a faithless brother. The king of the damned is a poor judge of being. It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world, a handyman's dream if ever there was one, is to fix yourself (as we discussed in rule 6). Anything else is presumptuous. Anything else risks harm stemming from your ignorance and lack of skill.

Mark Twain dijo en una ocasión: «Lo que nos mete en problemas no es lo que no sabemos, sino lo que creemos que sabemos, pero no sabemos».

But not thinking about something you don't want to know about doesn't make it go away. You

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." First, it is easy to assume that "nature" is something with a nature—something static.

the careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge.

We can turn everything into hell with just enough stupidity

Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself. It's unexplored territory. Chaos is what extends, eternally and without limit, beyond the boundaries of all states, all ideas, and all disciplines. It's the foreigner, the stranger, the member of another gang, the rustle in the bushes in the night-time, the monster under the bed, the hidden anger of your mother, and the sickness of your child. Chaos is the despair and horror you feel when you have been profoundly betrayed.

A cegueira voluntária é a recusa em saber algo que pode ser conhecido. É a recusa em admitir que aquele som é alguém a bater à porta. É a recusa em ver o enorme gorila na sala, o elefante debaixo do tapete, o esqueleto no armário. É a recusa em admitir erros enquanto seguimos com o plano.

Faith is not the childish belief in magic. That is ignorance or even willful blindness. It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being. It is simultaneously the will to dare set your sights at the unachievable, and to sacrifice everything, including (and most importantly) your life.

It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.

You have a direction, but it might be wrong. You have a plan, but it might be ill-formed. You may have been led astray by your own ignorance—and, worse, by your own unrevealed corruption. You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

Faith is not the childish belief in magic. That is ignorance or even willful blindness. It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.

Willful blindness is the refusal to know something that could be known.

You don't understand anything. You didn't even know that you were blind.

You probably don't want to put me in any situation where I'm expected to know something about the sportball.

The less you know about a topic, the more you overestimate the quality of your knowledge.

Hal Yakzuby le enseñó algo, no directamente, pero si indirectamente que los humanos quieren ser engañados. A veces tienen la verdad ante sus ojos y la ignoran, la desprecian, la desprecian, no la aceptan.

Iban a cultivar un huerto estéril, un huerto muerto, pero ¿cómo podían saberlo su nunca habían salido de Tenochtitlan?

La decadencia es ese tobogán que gobiernan los jóvenes: a partir de ahora las cosas son así, abuelo. Y la vejez consiste precisamente en no poder elegir y en tener que asimilarte por la fuerza a esa manga de ignorantes modernos que te ponen un revólver de futuro en la nuca. Se acabó lo que se daba. Te gusta o te vas, te adaptás o morís.

He could never get over his amazement at the incredible ignorance, the instinctive aversion for art, the type of ideas, the terror of words, peculiar to Catholics. Why was this? For after all there was no reason why believers should be more ignorant and stupid than any other folks. Indeed, the contrary ought to be the truth.