Quotes About Ignorance

You can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law.

People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much of his greatness without his vileness. It is still more dangerous to leave him in ignorance of both, but it is most valuable to represent both to him. Man must not be allowed to believe that he is equal either to animals or to angels, nor to be unaware of either, but he must know both.

For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery.

23] Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Being unable to overcome death, misery, and uncertainty, men have agreed, in order to be happy, not to think about them.

Voilà notre état véritable. C'est ce qui resserre nos connaissances en de certaines bornes que nous ne pas sons pas, incapables de savoir tout, et d'ignorer tout absolument.

133] Diversion. Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge, but its quality. You can know many things without knowing that which is most important. There are two types of ignorance, the pure, natural ignorance into which all people are born, and the ignorance of the so-called wise. You will see that many among those who call themselves scholars do not know real life, and they despise simple people and simple things.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El corazón tiene razones que la razón ignora (Blaise Pascal)

?tiinÈ›a lucrurilor exterioare nu m? poate consola de necunoaÈ™terea moralei în vremuri de am?r?ciune; dar È™tiinÈ›a moravurilor m? va consola întotdeauna de ignorarea È™tiinÈ›elor exterioare.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Several passengers also mentioned "6MWE." Smith did not know what they were talking about. He was horrified to learn, listening as some passengers explained and discussed openly that it meant "6 million weren't enough," a reference to the 6 million Jews exterminated in Nazi concentration camps.

many of the president's senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.

We did not live the way he wanted us to live and did not obey his teaching. 25So he became very angry with us and brought terrible wars against us. It was as if the people of Israel had fire all around them, but they didn't know what was happening. It was as if they were burning, but they didn't pay any attention.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity

What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!

You wouldn't believe what spite and superstition there is in the world.

Al Qaeda" didn't translate to "the base," as most Western media outlets had so ignorantly reported, but rather, "the database." It referred to the original computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with the help of the CIA to defeat the Russians in Afghanistan.

Puisque moi-même j'ai longtemps été un pensionnaire dans un asile d'aliénés, je ne peux que relever les tendances sophistes de certains pensionnaires qui les entraînent à se tromper en commettant les erreurs d'appliquer la non causa et ignoratio elenchi et qui consiste à mésestimer l'effet par ignorance de la cause.