Quotes About Ignorance

white sheet draped over his head. And Peavey knew enough about men in white sheets to understand they were nothing but cowards and posers.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

cannot it be added that it was one of the world's misfortunes that so many in the interwar years either ignored or laughed off the Nazi aims which Hitler had taken the pains to put down in writing?

And cannot it be added that it was one of the world's misfortunes that so many in the interwar years either ignored or laughed off the Nazi aims which Hitler had taken the pains to put down in writing? Surely the anti-Semitic points of the program promulgated in the Munich beer hall on the evening of February 24, 1920, constituted a dire warning.

obvious they had not heard the

He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, "I had no idea you were entering the Shit Title Olympics." "If you didn't swim in your sump of ignorance you'd know that title's designed to fuck with the French. Neither word's translatable into their ridiculous language.

There are no civilians in war, no firewalls between the blessedly ignorant and those intimately connected to networks, markets of crime and religiosity.

Mystery Epidemic of Imbecility.

As well as being a fascist, he's just not very clever

He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The man who does not learn is dark, like one walking in the night.

Only half-wits can stumble into such enormities.

Curse of Knowledge. Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. Our

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know :" Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals

The fates are cruel," Bheeshma whispered, "and they've been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault." "I'll still have to pay for them," Karna said. "Isn't that how karma works? Look at what happened to Pandu, who killed a sage by accident, thinking him to be a wild deer. He had to bear the consequences of it for the rest of his life.

I sogni sono telegrammi che vengono dal mondo dell'invisibile, - l'ho sentita dichiarare una volta. - Solo gli sciocchi - o gli analfabeti - lo ignorano

There is no such thing as a stupid question. Just stupid people who ask questions.

You don't know what you don't know. That's why you don't have. Because to know and not to have is not to know.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

You are not bad people. You are blind to the present and we are blind to the future.

This is the real reason why no one tells us Africans anything. It is not because anyone wants to keep my continent in ignorance. It is because nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Or maybe you would like to, but you can't. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works.

I realized I knew nothing about men apart from the fear.