Quotes About Ignorance

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold.

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

The Democratic Party's success or failure - if they expect any opportunity to gain a political foothold in the foreseeable future - resides solely on the party's ability to reconcile with the American people, most especially with the Americans that they chose to ignore.

When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.

There will be things I won't tell you ever, Then there will be things that you won't ever listen. Then...

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart.

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly educated people are unschooled.

One might think that living in an all-female society would have prepared me for this eventuality. But the opposite was true. No one ever discussed intimate matters. I didn't have the faintest idea of what was happening to me.

Klaus will not look at Ona or acknowledge anything she says. Ona is a ghost to him or less because of her 'Narfa', her spinsterdom and her burgeoning belly. I have observed that being a ghost suits Ona.

Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

In America, the murky, unknown places of the world are blank screens:

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

We are all blockheads.

The man who knew an encyclopedia by heart would be in grave danger of incurring the title idiot savant—"learned fool.