Quotes About Ignorance

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

Vrijheid betekent niet alleen doen wat je wilt, maar ook weten wat je doet, vrijheid betekent overtuigingen hebben en daarnaar handelen. Anders blijft alleen onwetendheid over, een toestand waarin we ons opwinden over onbelangrijke zaken en in alle gemoedsrust dingen accepteren die gruwelijk zijn.

The world runs," Lowell said, "on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don't mind what they don't see. Make them look and they mind, but you're the one they hate, because you're the one that made them look.

there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know.

How could they let me grow up like that—happy and pink and stupid?

The Mega doesn't hide. "My ass." "Can't possibly be worth what he thinks." I have no idea what he's talking about but it doesn't have anything to do with me so I dismiss it.

But this healer, like so many others, was afraid of what was different and thus condemned it. Ignorance translated into fear, which quickly became persecution.

Confronted by something she couldn't explain, she pretended it wasn't there. Dude, ostrich much?

I despised the world because I used to know who I was, and I used to be good, with no bad in me, or at least that's what I thought and there really is a degree of bliss and charmed innocence in ignorance.

Work was one of the reasons I wasn't paying enough attention when Sally died. I hadn't taken parenting classes. I hadn't had enough experience. I didn't realize a dad has to be there as much as a mom, for all the everyday things as well as the birthday parties. My ignorance cost us our child.

Stupid people rarely want to hear the truth.

Self-confidence is the expression of stupidity.

The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match

Politics is what a man does in order to conceal what he is and what he himself does not know.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Adev?rata ignoran?? nu este absen?a cunoa?terii, ci refuzul de a o dobândi.