Quotes About Ignorance

so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.

Il passaggio da bovaro a carmelitano non ha nulla di stridente: si passa dall'uno all'altro senza gran fatica. Il fondo comune d'ignoranza del villaggio e del convento è una base che mette il contadino allo stesso livello del frate; tenete un po' più grande il gabbano, ed avrete un saio.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is guilty in not providing universal free education, and it must answer for the night it produces. If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Americans. They didn't listen.

Yearning for a life you don't understand is like staring at the sun. Your foolishness will destroy you.

Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

being Jewish is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of." "Then why do my classmates mock me?" Charlotte could see him flinch, but he answered calmly. "Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant." "But what if I don't want to be Jewish?

people who bought a copy of Islam for Dummies on their way to join ISIS.

I know no such thing.

Sometimes I think the only difference between the two groups is that kids have legitimate excuses for their ignorance while adults just invent them.

You could only be happy on the planet if you never read newspapers or listened to the news.

How little he knew about the rules of this world which he had crashed against so casually, like a moth bumping against a light!

Gross ignorance produces a dogmatic spirit. He who knows nothing thinks he can teach others what he has himself just been learning. He who knows much scarcely believes that what he is saying is unknown to others, and consequently speaks with more hesitation.

Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatical.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

Few men know all the ill they do.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Now I, like that Chinese devotee, must confess myself a very ignorant person, and naturally unable to hear the conversation of Ants. But the Fairy of Science sometimes touches my ears and eyes with her wand; and then, for a little time, I am able to hear things inaudible, and to perceive things imperceptible.

Yet despite half a century of intervention in Muslim-majority countries—and interruption of their political destinies—this woman was still confused about ISIS. The hegemony that her country exercised gave her the privilege of being ignorant about other nations, other peoples, other faiths.

The hegemony that her country exercised gave her the privilege of being ignorant about other nations, other peoples, other faiths. It was as though she lived in a garden of innocence, removed from the knowledge that ought to come with being a citizen of the United States, until I appeared on the dais with an apple.

ignorance and power, they´re a poor combination.

Her ignorance was like standing in pure dark that could be either a closet or a vast, starless night.