Quotes About Ignorance

Yet there is no return: rolling up out of chaos, a nine months' wonder, the city the man, an identity—it can't be otherwise—an interpenetration, both ways. Rolling up! Obverse, reverse; the drunk the sober; the illustrious the gross; one. In ignorance a certain knowledge and knowledge, undispersed, its own undoing.

Time does not move. Only ignorance and stupidity move. Intelligence (force, power) stands still with time and forces change about itself - sifting the world for permanence, in the drift of nonentity.

It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.

The united nations is the most concentrated assault on moral reality in the history of free institutions, and it does not do to ignore that fact or, worse, to get used to it.

Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.

Qué estrella cae sin que nadie la mire?

Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did either, and I'm sure Moby Dick didn't. (William Faulkner)

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not yet be old enough to desire the fruits of it, which is not innocence but appetite; his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it, which is not ignorance but size.

pues una de las más felices facultades de la mente humana es la de poder ignorar lo que la conciencia se niega a asimilar

Siempre son los hombres que no sirven para nada los que te dicen cómo debes hacer las cosas. Son como esos profesores de Universidad que no tienen ni un par de calcetines propios y te dicen cómo puedes hacerte millonario en poco tiempo, o esas mujeres que nunca consiguieron atrapar marido y te dicen cómo se debe educar a los hijos.

Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...

Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

We think we know . Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

You are a silly little boy,' said the Lord of the Flies, 'just an ignorant, silly little boy.

In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance

I'm tired of the same surprise. I think I'm like most of us in that I want to believe the image. Don't tell me Clint Eastwood hates horses, I don't want to know it.

You're a peasant and a fool and I want my sword. You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance.

An examination of the work of the social doctors, however, shows that they are only more ignorant and more presumptuous than other people. We

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.