Quotes About Ignorance

La vera ignoranza non è la manca di cultura, ma il rifiuto di acquisirla.

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

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.

I believe I learned more about the theory of knowledge from my dear omniscient master Adalbert Pösch than from any other of my teachers. None did so much to turn me into a disciple of Socrates. For it was my master who taught me not only how very little I knew but also that any wisdom to which I might ever aspire could consist only in realizing more fully the infinity of my ignorance.

Fakat ayd?nlar?m?z ve yar?-ayd?nlar?m?z, "Nas?l olur da benim verdi?im oy, s?radan bir çöpçünün verdi?i oyla ayn? tutulur?", "Cahil kitleye göre ileriyi daha iyi gören ve bu nedenle büyük siyasi kararlarda daha etkin olabilecek hiç mi seçkin beyin yoktur?" biçimindeki sorular?yla kar??m?za ç?karlar.

wherever there is ignorance, you can always find arrogance.

We were two sets of people inhabiting the same space, each set going about its affairs as if the other were not there.

The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.

All this, grassy paddock, cows, trees - he had thought it was Nature. But now he could see that that was ignorance, or lack of imagination. It was not Nature . It was actually property.

Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the world the alter on which plants and animals lay down their own lives for the sustenance of others, and on which we lay our youth, our well-being, our loved ones, and finally our lives. I am an ignorant woman who has sacrificed all of these things but the last, and cannot say for whom or what I perform this unrelenting ritual.

Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can be vast, it includes the many futilities. Ideas do not have legs with which to run and hands with which to craft. They are wisps of smoke floating into a universe of pain and ignorance that overwhelm the capacity of one small human body and the mind trapped inside it.

I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.

If knowledge is power, power is also knowledge, and a large factor in their subordinate position is the fairly systematic ignorance patriarchy imposes upon women.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Aristotle said to Alexander, that a mind well furnished was more beautiful than a body richly arrayed. What can be more odious to man, and offensive to God, than ignorance. Reginald Scott, A Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1654

The science of our time knows how to measure galaxies and split atoms, but it is incapable of the least investigation beyond the sensible world, so much so that outside its self-imposed but unrecognized limits it remains more ignorant than the most rudimentary magic

Minds altogether horrible in their power, and in their ignorance — which their power protected.

When people felt pain time and time again, they came to fear that pain above all other things. So they tried to ignore it, to forget it was happening, as a way of bearing it. And pretty soon, they would come to feel like they'd accomplished something just by doing that -- even though nothing had changed.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

If you talk to people nowadays, nothing exists unless it has been seen on TV. It gives people the idea they have seen and know everything, when really they have seen and know nothing.

Thus, open taxes at some level serve to perpetuate public ignorance which is essential to the success of the scheme. The second reason is that taxes, particularly progressive taxes, are weapons by which elitist social planners can wage war on the middle class.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism. Power falls into the hands of the ignorant many. Instead of the destinies of the country being swayed by the wisest and best, a fickle multitude, swayed by interested demagogues, assumes the direction of affairs, and the result is inevitable—wasted powers, gross mismanagement, final ruin.