Quotes About Ignorance

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

I knew this would happen, Marla says. You're such a flake. You love me. You ignore me. You save my life, then you cook my mother into soap.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn't know they were stupid.

Be­cause no­body wants bad news.

Hay un montón de cosas que deseamos ignorar sobre la gente que queremos.

Ben ÅŸiddeti göz ard? etmeye programlanm??, duygusuz bir laboratuvar hayvan? deÄŸilim ama o anda akl?ma ilk olarak kan lekesinin üzerine soda sürmek için çok geç kal?nmam?? olabileceÄŸi geliyor.

Here's how we do things in America: We identify a problem, then we promptly ignore it until it's not just biting our ass, but it's already eaten the right cheek and has started on the left.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

No, no, I know, it's just—you know, I thought . . ." "Because I have Syrian heritage I hate the Jews?" "When you put it like that, I'm pretty sure I'm a dumb-ass.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote. We have the program in other

Easy to make people afraid of something they didn't understand—they had a question, so all you had to do was answer it. Didn't matter if the answer was true factually. It just had to be true emotionally—it had to answer something inside of them, blood to blood, fear to fear.

Thus, being ignorant of its nature, the masses suppose that men of wealth, influence, and important family connections are the best...as a result of this error on the part of the commons, the wealth rather than the excellence of a few men has come to control the state

But we don't really know anything at all, except how the story should go, and we make believe it's our story, hoping everything will turn out okay. The difference is that onstage, or in a film, we acknowledge the artifice, we accept that we've made a world that excludes what we ignore. Like gods, we invent a world that makes sense.

I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

People who don't want to do something that they know they should do have marvelously inventive abilities to ignore what they know. They

He had dabbled in a thing which he had not understood. And had, furthermore, committed that greater sin of thinking that he did understand. And the fact of the matter was that he had just barely understood enough to make the concept work, but had not understood enough to be aware of its consequences. With

The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.

ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed.

horsemen ignored both the right and the left flanks

No slave had ever keeled over dead at a spinning wheel or been butchered for a tangle. But nobody wanted to speak on the true disposition of the world. And no one wanted to hear it.

Och att de sedan, efter allt världen hade lärt dem, inte kände igen bojorna när de fästes vid deras händer och fötter. South Carolinas bojor var av ett nytt slag – nycklarna och tillhållarna präglades av lokala syften – men fungerade ändå som bojor. De hade inta alls kommit särskilt långt.