Quotes About Ignorance

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

facts never prevent the ignorant from jerking their knees into the groin of science.

What? Were you born stupid, or did you just die that way?

Maybe it's the best answer of all. If more people could admit they really don't know, maybe there never would have been a Heartland War.

Being ignored has its advantages...Dignity doesn't grow under a microscope.

There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.

The misinformed mob never changes; it just replaces torches and pitchforks with iPhones and Androids.

There are choices we make, choices that are made for us, and things we ignore long enough until all choices have fallen away.

They knew what had happened at school, and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can't solve is not really a problem.

Most people, however, didn't take a position either way. They just wanted to disappear into the pleasantries of their lives. As long as when bad thing happened, they happened somewhere else, to someone they didn't know, it was not their problem.

You can't overestimate the stupidity of the general public.

You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to hell because it doesn't know where or what hell is...)

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

I'm on the cross. be kind and they put you on the cross. that son of a bitch on his couch talking about Mahler and Kant and cunt and revolution, not really knowing about any of them.

Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas.

Janeway Smithson had been on the job for twenty-five years and was dumb enough to be proud of it. He

testament to the human capacity to adapt (or, less charitably, to our ability to operate in ignorance).

Blinded by the shine from Potosí silver, the Spaniards paid little attention to conquered peoples' excremental practices.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:

É muito fácil esconder nossa ignorância debaixo de expressões como plano de criação, unidade de padrão, etc., e pensar que explicamos um fato apenas por reafirmá-lo.

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation, unity of design