Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

A fool is one whom simpletons believe to be a man on merit. [Fr., Un fat celui que les sots croient un homme de merite.]

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings. [Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

Just because the Panjandrums know how to run cheeseburg stands, they think they know how to run a Convox.

there was something willfully idiotic in going to an unknown country, ignoring its people, their languages, art, its beasts and butterflies, flowers, herbs, trees, ruins, et cetera, and reducing it all to a few lumps of heavy matter un the center of a dish.