Quotes About Ignorance

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Awareness about lack of knowledge is the most useful knowledge.

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.And that no one knows the truth.

Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

attitudes toward America. Vainly, I scoured Dreams from My Father for some expression of reverence, even respect, for the country its author would someday lead. Instead, the book criticizes Americans for their capitalism and consumer culture, for despoiling their environment and maintaining antiquated power structures. Traveling abroad, they exhibited "ignorance and arrogance"—the very shortcomings the president's critics assigned to him.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored.

In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn't know what he was talking about.

Thorne's dislike of theory was legendary. In his view, a theory was nothing more than a substitute for experience put forth by someone who didn't know what he was talking about.