Quotes About Ignorance

Still, the unfamiliar power of a new technology was seldom a match for a complacent human mind bent on ignoring it.

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;           Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.           All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,           All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,           But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.

They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad. I just don't think of it.

How many times do you read about 'the Cinderella story,' the story of the underdog, the story of the ordinary human being, often subjected to cruelty and ignorance and neglect, who somehow triumphs?

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

You're actually putting someone down by saying that you don't understand their culture and hence it's not normal. Perhaps some things we find 'new' were simply things we were ignorant to earlier.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

When I left NSA, it was with an understanding that you can never underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people.

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics, confused about their own platform from the beginning, and indelicate when it comes to the craft of diplomacy, doesn't mean they're wrong.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.