Quotes About Ignorance

he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible

Has anyone you know ever been ritually mutilated because they were seen reading a book?

For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. —HOBBES, Leviathan

He seemed not to know that he was quite handsome.

Luisa had a relaxed self-confidence that made it easy for her to admit that she knew absolutely nothing about such topics as orbital mechanics. But it was more than just that; she knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations. Izzy was full of people who were skewed toward the Asperger's end of the social spectrum, and there was no better way to get them to start talking than to ask them a technical question.

He doesn't even know what a scupper is, except a modality of vomiting.

she knew how to use her own ignorance as an icebreaker in conversations.

That many ignorant people could be dangerous if they got pointed in the wrong direction, and so we've evolved a popular culture that is (a) almost unbelievably infectious, and (b) neuters every person who gets infected by it, by rendering them unwilling to make judgments and incapable of taking stands.

Here are The Ten Illusions. Get to know them well so that you will recognize them when you encounter them. Need Exists Failure Exists Disunity Exists Insufficiency Exists Requirement Exists Judgment Exists Condemnation Exists Conditionality Exists Superiority Exists Ignorance Exists

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.

informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.

Still, our knowledge of the planets was meager, and where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos. And therein lies a fascinating dichotomy. "The universe always was," gets no respect as a legitimate answer to "What was around before the beginning?" But for many religious people, the answer, "God always was," is the obvious and pleasing answer to "What was around before God?

As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.

Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance is the natural state of mind for a research scientist. People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject, to know you're wrong.