Quotes About Ignorance

what stars, what thought and sadness up above, and what ignorance below.

az ostobaság ugyanis mindig a zsúfoltság szinonimája, és semmi sincs jobban tele, mint egy üres fej.

Throughout eternity our poor ghosts are exposed to nameless vicissitudes. There is no appeal, no advice, no support, no protection, nothing. Poor Kinbote's ghost, poor Shade's shade, may have blundered, may have taken the wrong turn somewhere—oh, from sheer absent-mindedness, or simply through ignorance of a trivial rule in the preposterous game of nature—if there be any rules.

What I am thinking of is the man of imagination and science, whose courage is infinite because his curiosity surpasses his courage. Nothing will keep him back...Any true scientist (not, of course,the fraudulent mediocrity, whose only treasure is the ignorance he hides like a bone) should be capable of experiencing that sensuous pleasure of direct and divine knowledge. He may be twenty and he may be eighty-five but without that tingle there is no science.

the compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. However, I am being left in that ignorance which is tolerable only to those living at liberty

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

You can't fix stupid.

Men det man ikke faÌŠr se, bli enda verre for vaÌŠre øyne. Det vokser. Det forsvinner aldri. Uvitenheten er et drivhus hvor de skrekkeligste blomster gror.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

Hey, 27. Way to skip HistCulture and almost die. Classy." "Yeah," I said, matching her nonchalant tone. "It was so much fun. You should try it sometime. Did the drone…?" "Leave yet? Yes. Did it mean to fly in our airspace? My opinion is no, which I'm writing up in this report that will most likely be ignored," Eva sighed.

A menudo la estupidez se confunde con la valentía, y tengo que admitir que Aer es bastante estúpido.

Yo no me revuelco en el barro -observó Bipa-. Y no hace falta ser muy lista para darse cuenta de que aquí la gente se muere de hambre. Así que no veo por qué debería tener en cuenta la opinión de alguien que vive en una casa de hielo y dice que es mejor ser blanca y flaca que estar sana y tener un hogar cálido y confortable. Es una idea absurda y estúpida.

Se han acostumbrado a creer que el mundo es como ellos piensan que es, y temen conocer la verdad.

Let me remind you, this is a community property state, Josh. And let me also remind you that hiding assets during a divorce is a serious offense! Oh, wait! But you're a lawyer, so I guess you already knew that. Too bad you won't be able to plead ignorance when I take you back to court!" Josh

Thoughts of course can't be dirty except for ignorance, untruth or ugliness. And why would you think about them anyway.

Ignorance is not a capital crime. It is a correctable condition.

He brought down Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Jay Cantor's Krazy Kat, then grabbed an omnibus volume of Dick. "And this is the book that inspired the film we saw tonight." Tess stifled a laugh, but not the surge of affection behind it. Where some might have seen an almost woeful ignorance

People today are always talking about prejudice and stuff, like the rest of us never knew it.

Mi séquito estuvo compuesto por diez sabios colmados de ciencia, los cuales permanecían callados , sabiendo lo que tanto se olvida, que el no saber es la única ciencia

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

You don't know what you're talking about," he says. "And you shouldn't talk about things you know nothing about.

which almost nothing was known in Europe.