Quotes About Ignorance

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

Driving home later that night, Dees lamented that young black people born after the end of the civil rights era knew almost nothing about those who had died so they could live freer lives. And those of the white race knew even less about one of the most important social and political movements in American history.

Don't fucking make judgments about something you know nothing about.

Sometimes I think I was better off not knowing any men. I truly had no idea they could be so very stupid." She sighed. "It's quite disappointing, really.

Life is a matter of exchanges. Youth for age, ignorance for knowledge. Endless exchanges.

Moody had never thought much about money, because he never needed to. Lights went on when he flipped switches; water came out when he turned the tap.

education costs money. but then so does ignorance.

Quanto maggiore sarà il numero di quelli che intenderanno e avranno fralle mani il sacro codice delle leggi, tanto meno frequenti saranno i delitti, perché non v'ha dubbio che l'ignoranza e l'incertezza delle pene aiutino l'eloquenza delle passioni.

C'est le malheur de l'esprit humain que les choses les plus lointaines et les moins importantes, telles que les révolutions des corps célestes, lui soient les plus présentes et les mieux connues, alors que les notions morales, toutes proches et de la plus haute importance, restent toujours flottantes et confuses, au gré du souffle des passions qui les pousse, ou de l'ignorance dirigée qui les reçoit et les transmet.

Gli ignoranti saranno sempre ignoranti, perché la forza è nelle mani di chi ha interesse che la gente non capisca, nelle mani del governo, dei neri, dei capitalisti...

The practice of meditation is to see the transparency of this shield. But we cannot immediately start dealing with the basic ignorance itself; that would be like trying to push a wall down all at once. If we want to take this wall down, we must take it down brick by brick; we start with immediately available material, a stepping-stone. So the practice of meditation starts with the emotions and thoughts, particularly with the thought process.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

I don't care what people think, people are stupid

Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist. (From the short story, "Charity".)

Do you read, Mr. Quinn?" he asked. "Everybody should read something. Otherwise we all fall down into the pit of ignorance. Many are down there. Some people fall in it forever. Their lives mean nothing. They should not exist.

As hard as it is to believe today, people didn't really know that there was a mob organization in those days.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

By making stupid people feel better about their stupidity. By allowing bigots to think they were justified in making anti-Semitic statements, saying that it was OK to hate women, to be aggrieved about people of color, about immigrants.