Quotes About Ignorance

But now persecution is good, because it exists; every law which originated in ignorance and malice, and gratifies the passions from whence it sprang, we call the wisdom of our ancestors: when such laws are repealed, they will be cruelty and madness; till they are repealed, they are policy and caution.

Good at believing what they wanted and ignoring any proof to the contrary

I'm stupid about executions.

Josh Billings: «No es lo que ignoramos lo que nos impide prosperar; lo que constituye nuestro mayor obstáculo es lo que creemos que sabemos y luego resulta que no es así».

JeÅ›li sÄ…dzisz, ?e wyksztaÅ'cenie drogo kosztuje, spróbuj niewiedzy - Benjamin Franklin

Si piensas que la formación es cara, prueba con la ignorancia».

Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

I was neither living nor dead, and I knew nothing

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have lost in living?/Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

This last year, I have been in flight But always in ignorance of invisible pursuers. Now I know that all my life has been a flight

I must face them. I must fight them. But they are stupid. How can one fight with stupidity?

Burning a book's like burning a human being. Once yer start burning books, yer end up burning the entire world, every damn human being in it!

Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

Still, a fanatic heart will ignore what it does not want to know," said Minasao. "It will excuse even that which cannot be excused in the need to find someone to share its bitterness.

The man is so narrow-minded his ears rub together.

Who does not know?

There is no better outcome of one's education, which the American philosopher William Durant called "a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

The Beatles insisted he let it be, let it be. Stephen ejected the tape from his eight-track and threw it on the floor of the passenger seat. Whispered words of wisdom, please. They had no idea.

Big Daddy: Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort.

so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.

Socrates believed that true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.