Quotes About Ignorance

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Today's society will ignore almost any form of public behavior except getting in the express line with two extra items.

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.

Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry.

There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.

the cosmogony of Genesis is so simple that even a yokel can grasp it. It is set forth in a few phrases. It offers, to an ignorant man, the irresistible reasonableness of the nonsensical. So he accepts it with loud hosannas, and has one more excuse for hating his betters.

en el momento en que Agustín de Iturbide tomó el poder, el 98% de los mexicanos eran analfabetos… esa fue la gran herencia educativa de la maestra-iglesia, un lastre que no se pudo eliminar a lo largo del México independiente, hasta llegar a nuestros días, con 50 millones de mexicanos sepultados en la miseria… esta es la mejor prueba de su ignorancia, pues si contaran con títulos académicos difícilmente estarían en esa condición.

Cómo construir un país en semejantes condiciones de total ignorancia y de rencor acumulado en contra de los "gachupines" que habían despojado de cuanto se podía al indio, al mulato y al negro?

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

If you don't understand it right away, don't worry, you're in good company. Many fund managers and corporate CEOs had only a limited understanding of the bond and derivatives markets until very recently. Even President Clinton reportedly admitted surprise when he discovered the importance of—in his words, according to one source—a bunch of "fucking bond traders.

I began to sense the depth of my ignorance about the country I was talking about. On the road, I'd be parroting the party line, saying that America was godless and doomed. But the America I was actually experiencing (for the first time as a resident) was not doomed. It was more complicated and wonderful than I had ever imagined.

ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

to see a nigger you kill a nigger.