Quotes About Ignorance

The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

He supposed it was inevitable. Dip a person into one particular specialty deeply enough and long enough, and he would automatically begin to assume that specialists in all other fields were magicians, judging the depth of their wisdom by the breadth of his own ignorance...

El hombre más irreversiblemente estúpido es aquel que ignora su sabiduría.

But I still can't quite grasp what you're telling me. I find it impossible to believe that there would be such unreasoning feeling against harmless people." Amaryl said bitterly, "That's because you've never had any occasion to interest yourself in such things. It can all pass right under your nose and you wouldn't smell a thing because it doesn't affect you.

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad.

And of those who were aware, there were dime classes. First, there were the many who knew little and were very confident.

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.

Proti hlouposti ani sami bohové nic nezmohou.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si el conocimiento puede crear problemas, no es con la ignorancia con lo que podremos resolverlo (Isaac Asimov)

is fifty years now since this Foundation was established – sfifty years in which the members of the Foundation have been ignorant of what it was they were working toward. It was necessary that they be ignorant, but now the necessity is gone. 'The Encyclopedia Foundation, to begin with, is a fraud, and always has been!

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras más años cumplo, más ignorante me siento. Sólo los jóvenes tienen explicación para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridículo —replicó ella secamente.

la fatuidad es privilegio de ignorantes; el sabio es humilde porque sabe cuán poco sabe

I realized also that in Nahuel, that town of hospitable neighbors, you only had to scratch the surface to uncover the ugliest of vices, though my mentors insisted that cruelty wasn't inherent to the human condition, merely something born of ignorance and poverty. "It's much easier to be generous with a full belly than an empty one," they said. I've never believed that, though, because I've seen that both kindness and cruelty exist everywhere.

Si esprimeva con un tono di tale superiorità che mi tornò in mente l'opinione del maestro Juan Ribero, secondo il quale la vanagloria è prerogativa degli ignoranti; il saggio è umile perché sa di sapere poco.

Algunos eran de una ignorancia monumental, llegaban a la universidad sin poder situar a Chile en un mapa y seguramente tampoco eran capaces de situar su propio país en el mundo: creían que Estados Unidos era el mundo.

the Herero war showed that most Germans were entirely ignorant of the most basic facts concerning the colony. It is more surprising that the General Staff overlooked all these factors as well.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.