Quotes About Ignorance

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Bicycles are sometimes kindly accommodated by cars, often ignored, occasionally respected, sometimes nervously followed, and frequently not even seen. In this sense, riding in traffic is not unlike being a woman among men.

When the last nationwide smallpox epidemic began in 1898, some people believed that whites were not susceptible to the disease. It was called "Nigger itch," or, where it was associated with immigrants, "Italian itch" or "Mexican bump." When

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and

Unfortunately ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it,

When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp.

The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.