Quotes About Ignorance

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Like all poetical natures he [Christ] loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

fear feeds fear when knowledge fails

It just shows how one half of the world doesn't know how three quarts live.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

Remember the lesson our ancestors learned with their precious blood: Fear and bigotry are bred from isolation and ignorance.

Segregation breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear.

Katrina opened a window that allowed us to peer into the real America, but as soon as the disruptive event was over, that window closed, and the country's consciousness went back to its usual state of ignoring the fact that black people, especially low-income black people, are daily denied democracy and equality in this country.

This ignorance of the lives of others is what allows gentrification to happen. Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts points out in her book Harlem Is Nowhere that whenever a neighborhood gentrifies, you hear white people and the media using phrases such as "People are starting to move to that neighborhood," or "No one used to go there, but that's changing." The implication is that before these places gentrified, no one lived there, or at least no one of importance.

He had never measured a footprint in his life, and what he did not know about bloodstains would have filled a library.

It just showed once again that half the world doesn't know how the other three quarters live

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, Aren't you upset that people make fun of you? and I'm like, Are they making fun of me? I guess I just don't get it.

The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him. The

Just as lighted candles are not meant to be covered by bushel baskets but put on candlesticks to shed their light, so also, souls are lighted with the inherent presence of God, not to be enshrouded by ignorance, uselessness, materiality, and death, but that they may, with the illumination of wisdom and goodness, enlighten spiritually darkened lives.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.

Realized knowledge alone destroys ignorance. . . . Knowledge cannot spring up by any other means than inquiry.

No habiendo podido los hombres remediar la muerte la miseria y la ignorancia, han imaginado, para ser felices, no pensar en absoluto en ellas.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

Sweet little Jesus, I thought, as I weaved between the desks, these kids don't know crap.

Randy felt relieved. He looked out over the river, contemplating his ignorance of women and the peace of evening.