Quotes About Ignorance

Your ignorance, brother, returned she, as the great Milton says, almost subdues my patience.[*] D—n Milton! answered the squire: if he had the impudence to say so to my face, I'd lend him a douse, thof he was never so great a man.

To these encroachments, time and ignorance, the two great supporters of imposture, gave authority;

O dia de hoje já é o amanhã que os maus economistas, ontem, nos aconselharam a ignorar.

What it accordingly amounted to for him was that he had to take full in the face a fresh attribution of ignorance. He had grown used by this time to reminders, especially from his own lips, of what he didn't know; but he had borne them because in the first place they were private and because in the second they practically conveyed a tribute.

Well, intensity with ignorance—what do you want worse?

One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.

We do not talk, we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

perpetrated on a helpless world of idiots.

The most ignorant and degenerate of them will be asked to shoulder a gun and fight for a civilization which has brought them nothing but misery and degradation.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.

There is a principal which is proof against all information, which is proof against all arguments, which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance; that principal is - Contempt prior to investigation !

As I said, humans know nothing at birth! We have to learn! But most of us do not know that! And, again, what we don't know, we don't know that we don't know!

For some reason, a lot of folks seem to think that until very recently every Southern politician would go home at night, wait for it to get dark, take a white sheet out of his closet, and then go tearing around the countryside, burning crosses and raising hell.

and yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Ignorance is the parent of fear, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Well, I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of toothless, ignorant people yelling at you. It's horrible.

Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and bombing campaigns across the globe tend not to. Ask the Iraqis or the Iranians, ask the Cubans or the Chileans. And, yes, ask the North Koreans.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez relies on a lot of economic ignorance to get you to believe what's not true could be true.

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

You can't fix stupid.

There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.