Quotes About Ignorance

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

Few men know all the ill they do.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.

The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you think I could possibly hate a man I know?"

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.