Quotes About Ignorance

There's a fundamental stupidity in mankind which is as eternal as life itself.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

Our ignorance of history makes us vilify our own age.

He remembers with disdain the ignorance of other days, the mediocrity of his dreams. And now those luminous globes he was wont to gaze upon from below are close to him!

that priests have always wallowed in turpid ignorance, in which they would fain engulf the people with them.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

It's not difficult to appear bright, don't worry. The main thing is never to show obvious ignorance of anything. You prevaricate, avoid the difficulty, steer clear of the problem and then catch other people out by using a dictionary. All men are stupid oafs and ignorant nincompoops.

It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.

He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and bought women. Outside these two poles of existence, he understood nothing. Braggart, brawler, contemptuous of every living person, he despised the whole world from the heights of his ignorance.

Some people are Freethinkers from sheer stupidity. My Uncle Sosthenes was one of these. Some people are often religious for the same reason.

Nous sommes si infirmes, si désarmés, si ignorants, si petits, nous autres, sur ce grain de boue qui tourne délayé dans une goutte d'eau.

Bir damla suya kar???p dönen bu çamur tanesinin üzerindeki biz diÄŸerleri, öylesine dermans?z, öylesine silahs?z, öylesine bilgisiz, öylesine küçüÄŸüz ki.

Nem nehéz dolog m?velt embernek látszani, annyi az egész mesterség, hogy ne fogasd rajta magadat valami tudatlanságon. Az ember manÅ'verezik, elsikkasztja a nehézségeket, megkerüli az akadályokat, s egy lexikon segítségével lefÅ'z mindenkit. Minden ember olyan buta, mint a liba, és olyan tudatlan, mint a szamár.

Sometimes blissful ignorance is awfully empowering

I've always found that a really lively argument depends on the ignorance of the combatants.

Most of those characters with all the answers couldn't poor piss out of a rubber boot if they read the instructions printed on the sole.

Žijeme naÅ¡e životy na malém ostr?vku zaslepenosti, bez povÄ›domí o temných oceánech nekone?na okolo nás. NemÄ›li bychom se snažit pÃ…â"¢íliÅ¡ rozhlížet. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

The common man is a fool.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage

Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of "white trash" in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.