Quotes About Ignorance

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable.

I'm no financial expert. I scarcely know what a coin is. Ask me to explain what a credit default swap is, and I'll emit an unbroken 10-minute 'um' through the clueless face of a broken puppet. You might as well ask a pantomime horse.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One can have, it turns out, an affection for the war years.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik

There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.