Quotes About Ignorance

which I look upon with contempt as the effect of manifest ignorance and enthusiasm;

A capacidade que os poderosos têm de ignorar as pessoas inconvenientes (e as verdades inconvenientes) não lhes dando atenção tornou-se o centro das atenções dos psicólogos sociais, que têm encontrado relações entre o poder e as pessoas a quem damos mais e menos atenção.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn't know how things played out.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know I was stupid- the official descriptive phrase for happy.

There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back, this thing you gave me as the star we were waiting for finally emerged.

When in our schools the study of current events (that is, of what is reported in the newspapers) displaces the facts of history, it is inevitable that the standard of knowledge propagated by newspapers and magazines and television networks themselves (that is, whether one is up on what is reported in the newspapers, magazines, and television) overshadows all others. When to be informed is to knowledgeable about pseudo-events, the line between knowledge and ignorance is blurred as never before.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.

Before, they had laughed at me, despising me for my ignorance and dullness; now, they hated me for my knowledge and understanding. Why? What in God's name did they want of me?

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge.

the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes

Antes, riam de mim, desprezando-me por minha ignorância e estupidez; agora, eles me odiavam por meu conhecimento e compreensão.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss

When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. —Paul Veyne

We went wrong by failing to take into account a great truth, namely, that teals are stupid and lazy and perfectly content to stay that way.

There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no death, there is the Force.

La ignorancia sólo es motivo de vergüenza si se decide no corregirla

Preceptos del Código Jedi: No hay emoción; hay paz. No hay ignorancia; hay conocimiento. No hay pasión; hay serenidad. No hay caos; hay armonía. No hay muerte; está la Fuerza.

The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.