Quotes About Ignorance

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know.

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: wars are fundamentally unpredictable (and we do not know it). Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance-like a child playing with a chemistry kit.

ignoramus et ignorabimus—we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow

The IYI subscribes to The New Yorker, a journal designed so philistines can learn to fake a conversation about evolution, neurosomething, cognitive biases, and quantum mechanics.

Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Our problem is not just that we do not know the future, we do not know much of the past either. We

He defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

And, as expected, via negativa is part of classical wisdom. For the Arab scholar and religious leader Ali Bin Abi-Taleb (no relation), keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant.

Problema noastr? nu este numai c? nu cunoa?tem viitorul, ci ?i c? nu cunoa?tem nici trecutul.

There are so many things we can do if we focus on antiknowledge, or what we do not know.

How? Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

One would suppose that people living through the beginning of WWII had an inkling that something momentous was taking place. Not at all.*

My idea is that not only are some scientific results useless in real life, because they underestimate the impact of the highly improbable (or lead us to ignore it), but that many of them may be actually creating Black Swans. These

Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo 'AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« T?lib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.

Epistemic arrogance bears a double effect: we overestimate what we know, and underestimate uncertainty, by compressing the range of possible uncertain states (i.e., by reducing the space of the unknown).

Out of sight, out of mind: we harbor a natural, even physical, scorn of the abstract.

in fact, they are so blind to the odds that they treat odds of one in a thousand and one in a million almost in the same way.

Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools—by definition, they do not know that they belong to such a category

People can't predict how ong they will be happy with recently acquired objects, how long their marriages will last, how their new jobs will turn out, yet it's subatomic particles that they cite as limits of prediction. They're ignoring a mammoth standing in front of them in favor of matter even a microscope would not allow them to see.

seem to ignore the bad economic aspect of the transaction.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn.