Quotes About Ignorance

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.

The First Amendment protects the news media and the news media knows how to use it. Donald Trump doesn't understand it, he's never going to understand it.

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I cant even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

I think we probably have a racial death wish. We don't understand anything about where we live, and we don't want to.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene