Quotes About Ignorance

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

I truly believe that a lot of what I perceive as deliberate cruelty is based on ignorance.

It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet.

Not to know is bad, but not to wish to know is worse.

My father never got the memo about red meat, colonoscopies, or heart disease. His philosophy was that if you never went to the doctor, you never found out there was something wrong with you. So far it was working for him.

at least if you were ignorant you could do wat you wanted. you had no idea wat had been acheived in the past. you were free instead of chewed at by bleeding impotence, dissolved away like a pearl in acid

But they weren't small children, they were women, they were admiring someone they didn't know the first thing about. Look at the hag Truth for once, college girl.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.