Quotes About Ignorance

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

A racist is a man who believes in history, genetics, and his eyes!

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.

Light means nothing to a blind man.

All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is