Quotes About Ignorance

People actively seek to filter out painful stimuli, and while this may help them limit distress, it can also sharply distort their actual environment. "If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves," wrote Aldous Huxley, "it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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

The blameless couple annoyed Alice, ignorant as they were of John Crimmins's whereabouts, unknowing of Tommy or his end, blithely incurious about the charred plot of land to the south. Should not sickening cruelty leave its impressions upon the surroundings? Should not a repulsive act taint the very air?

E para de falar porque volta a descobrir uma verdade universal que esquece todos os dias quando se deita. O mundo é conduzido por medíocres, egoístas e idiotas. Sobretudo estes últimos

Y ya sabe el principio básico de cualquier programador. Lo que el usuario no sabe, al usuario no le hace daño.

El mundo es mucho más fácil cuando eres idiota, porque una de las bendiciones de serlo es que no sabes que lo eres.

Modern women had their own self-made guilt to make them miserable, but the sixteenth-century people had diseases, their fear of the unknown, their ignorance of medicine, and constant and ever-present death to haunt them.

As the Buddha says, "Suffering comes from both ignorance and denial." One

Les gens bien portants sont des malades qui s'ignorent.

Neither of you are afraid of anything, and that's not bravery; that's not knowing how bad things can be.

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure… MARK TWAIN

Los ignorantes odian lo que desconocen, pero además en la historia de Europa hay momentos execrables: La Inquisición, los pogromos... El judío es el extranjero o el diferente, alguien a quien culpar de todos los males de la sociedad. Ésa es la excusa que utilizan los poderosos para desvia la atención de sus responsabilidades hacia la propia sociedad.

Desconocer la historia le hace sentirse mejor? ¿Cree que por no conocerla no ha existido?

One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present.

Was the world populated with blind men, or merely stupid ones?

Knowing is rarely a prerequisite for hating.

I heard her ask Lord Nebel how many sheep he was running on his estate. He didn't even know he was running sheep." "I have sheep, but from the look of it, all they do is eat. No running.

Really, if people weren't so intent on keeping young women completely ignorant of the realities of marriage, scenes like this could be avoided.

People always feared what they didn't understand.

You little fool

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.