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Quotes About Ignorance

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes... Reason and Love are met with a violent ignorance that even what's right gets lost. Our heart bleeds, but when does the blood shed end and the healing begin?
~ Solange nicole
É de facto verdade que o conhecimento é mais cego do que a inocência
~ Bram Stoker
Y pensar que aún existen personas ignorantes que dudan de que los locos sepan hilvanar sus ideas!
~ Bram Stoker
Y pensar que hay gente tan ignorante que piensa que un loco no tiene argumentos!
~ Bram Stoker
Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
~ Brandon Mull
Would you forgive a killer for not knowing how a gun functioned? How many would have to die before you stopped pardoning his ignorance?
~ Brandon Mull
Algunas veces es mejor no saber.
~ Brenda Novak
You don't know what torture is. You don't know what you're talking about. You really don't know what you're talking about.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?" I ask her, swallowing.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire? —as quoted by Diana Butler Bass1
~ Brian D. McLaren
I hardly ever read the paper or watch television. I usually don't know what's going on in the world. You'd be amazed how little difference it makes to your life on most days.
~ Brian Freeman
blissful as ignorance
~ Brian Greene
Logical enlightenment will always defeat emotional ignorance, although the battle is not necessarily pretty. —mission statement, Denali Research Facility
~ Brian Herbert
The Baron had a monopoly on Arrakis—but it was also a monopoly based on ignorance. He gritted his teeth and knew
~ Brian Herbert
We avoid what we do not wish to see; we are deaf to what we do not wish to hear; we ignore what we do not wish to know. We are masters of self-deception, of manipulating our perceptions. —Bene Gesserit summation, Wallach IX archives
~ Brian Herbert
Power and deceit are tools of statecraft, yes. But remember that power deludes the ones who wield it—making them believe it can overcome the defects of their ignorance. —COUNT FLAMBERT MUTELLI, early speech in Landsraad Hall of Oratory
~ Brian Herbert
Norma said with great portent, "Ignorance is a powerful armor against the truth.
~ Brian Herbert
I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we're little kids. Because there's less to worry about? Because we're too stupid to know how worried we should be.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.
~ Burnett, Frances Hodgson
I tell Ki that I'm learning about words and stories to help our family. He says he's protecting our family with his knife. Who is right? Which is best, protecting with words or with his knife? She is instant, certain, and solemn, and there is no misunderstanding her meaning. Fight ignorance with words. Fight evil with your knife. Tell you husband, Ki, that he is right.
~ Camron Wright