Quotes About Ignorance

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Lucy stiffened. As annoyed as she was with Toby, she didn't appreciate hearing him addressed as "boy." Either Big Mike didn't know or didn't care how offensive that appellation was to African American males, regardless of their age. If her brother, Andre, had been around, Big Mike would have gotten a big lesson in racial sensitivity.

Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.

When Society allows a dyslexic to sink, through ignorance or prejudice, it is not only the dyslexic who loses.

I know not who put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor what I myself am. I am in terrible ignorance of everthing. I know not what my body is, nor my senses, nor my soul, not even that part of me which thinks what I say, which reflects on all and on itself, and knows itself no more than the rest.

Public ignorance and anti-intellectualism are not identical, of course, but they are certainly kissing cousins. Both foster the rise of candidates who regard a broad knowledge of history, science, and culture, and a decent command of their native language as political liabilities rather than assets—and who frequently try to downplay these qualities, even if they possess them, in order to pander to a public that considers conspicuous displays of learning a form of snobbery.

I'm aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I'd ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I've glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I've sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

There is none so blind as those who will not see.

People will always distrust what they don't understand. And what they distrust, they cannot

my life seemed more fully layered because of the choices I had made, both consciously and in ignorance. I

People will always distrust what they don't understand.

He was worried I might one day naively mix laundry bleach with ammonia and he wanted to make sure I understood some things cannot be stirred together into the same pot because they will react in ways that can hurt someone. It is that way with fear and ignorance, I think.

A free spirit's just an idiot who doesn't want to face reality.

His mother claims she didn't know anything about the racist terror going on in Mississippi and Alabama; she was caught up in joining a sorority, not knowing what was going on in the rest of the world. Or around the corner.

I doubt that anyone in town belongs to the Klan, or even its more respectable cousin, the White Citizens' Council. They'd simply prefer to leave the past unexamined, cover it with honeysuckle, and go back to their bourbon. It's the kind of response that ensures no one will reflect on the ways that past seeps into present.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

as Thomas Paine said, it has never been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge.

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

I just need five more minutes, he pleaded with the universe. Even two will do. The universe ignored him.