Quotes About Ignorance

A scientist is someone who lives immersed in the awareness of our deep ignorance, in direct contact with our own innumerable limits, with the limits of our understanding.

Passe bem, ignaro, ou melhor, passe mal!

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

It bothers me to hear people talk about things they know nothing about.

Authentic happiness can only come from the long-term cultivation of wisdom, altruism, and compassion, and from the complete eradication of mental toxins, such as hatred, grasping, and ignorance.

This legislative ennui about musket-and rifle-toting insurgents also ignored that, from Shays's Rebellion to the Whiskey Rebellion, white men were the ones who had taken up arms against the United States of America. And in a pattern that would repeat itself well into the twenty-first century, there were little to no consequences for that.

Somnus, god of sleep, please awaken us. While we sleep, ignorance takes over the world.… Take your spell off us. We don't have long before ignorance makes a coup d'état of the world." When

Time after time, as I and my fellow generals saw that our strategies weren't working, we failed to reconsider our basic assumptions. We failed to question our flawed understanding of our foe or ourselves . . . In the end, all the courage and skill in the world could not overcome ignorance and arrogance. As a general, I got it wrong. And I did so in company with my peers.

As best I could tell, Americans had little ability to learn from history. We were doomed to repeat the past, again and again.

To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire', 'fundamentalist' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why 'they' are not like 'us', to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of 'what went wrong?

And part of the problem is that phone. You have that function on that fucking phone that enables you to know when your texts are opened and ignored.

You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. . . But I may flout the standards? . . . Of course. What do you think standards are for?

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

When you are talking about stupidity, only the military knows the meaning of the word infinite

But the curator said nothing mattered so long as it looked all right to the ignorant." [Lady Brace] "Sort of government motto. I see." [Sir Henry Merrivale]

Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history; history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.

Pecuniary embarrassment, he thought, was the cause of all evil to the blacks, "for poverty kept them ignorant and their lack of enlightenment kept them degraded.

Savoir mal est pire qu'ignorer

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

It is said that to know you do not know is the beginning of wisdom. But that does not mean that to not know is the end of wisdom.

Turning a blind eye to reality is consistent with the pursuit of beauty in myth, but is inconsistent with the pursuit of beauty in truth.

Half the world knows not how the other half lives.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.