Quotes About Ignorance

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

but ignorance is widespread because most preachers never mention it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson have scoffed that "God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance." Atheists like him claim

The light of reason and civilization was virtually snuffed out by the Barbarian hordes who swarmed across Europe, annihilating everything the Romans had put in place, sacking Rome itself and consigning Europe to the Dark Ages. The Barbarians brought only chaos and ignorance, until the Renaissance rekindled the fires of Roman learning and art. It's a familiar story, but it's codswallop.

One must be willing to be cruel in the search for truth, but cruelty for no purpose is ignorance.

One needn't understand the workings of a pistol to pull its trigger.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Dessinunt odisse qui dessinunt ignorare (Dejan de odiar los que dejan de ignorar).

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

La verdadera sabiduría consiste en «querer ser ignorado y tenido por nada» –en «gozar en el desprecio de sí»–. Yo quería que, como el de Jesús, «mi rostro estuviera verdaderamente escondido y que nadie en la tierra pudiera reconocerme». Tenía sed de sufrir y de ser olvidada.

Confusion is a wilfully induced state of mind. we can enter or exit it at will. Man deliberately confuses himself in order to plead ignorance.

Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise so far, at least; but a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.

It has often been said that anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools; it would be more accurate to say that socialism is the anti-Semitism of intellectuals...

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

all the while I was thinking that I was the only man who did not know what I was about, and that all the others did—whereas, as I found out later, pretty much everybody else was as much in the dark as I was.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

What good is much discussion of involved and obscure matters when our ignorance of them will not be held against us on Judgment Day? Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.