Quotes About Ignorance

Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Si on veut rester content il ne faut pas voir le monde.

Yes, Evangeline loathed this place, but she loathed more the vanity and naivete and willful ignorance that had landed her here.

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that [according to the common observation] one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it -and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

Don't cater to stupidity.

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Even those who were ignorant of the word of God were not entirely deprived of divine light,

To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.

For surely there is a certain level of ignorance that is necessary at the start of a love affair.

Optimismus ist nur ein Mangel an Information.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Ostrich politics were here combined with ostrich strategy. To

They had no conception that sex had anything to do with emotional feelings and the desire for human contact — even among homosexuals. All that they cared about was a little bit of pleasure for themselves.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

T)he world is full of people busily making things into how they think the world ought to be, and burning huge parts of it to the ground, utterly and accidentally destroying things in the process without even knowing they are doing so. And that any of us might be doing that without knowing it, any of us, all the time.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

I'm always ashamed when I discover how well-read other people are and how ignorant I am in comparison. If you saw the long list of famous books and authors I've never read you wouldn't believe it. My problem is that while other people are reading fifty books I'm reading one book fifty times. I only stop when at the bottom of the page 20, say, I realize I can recite page 21 and 22 from memory. Then I put the book away for a few years.

Avouons notre ignorance, mais ne nous résignons pas à la croire définitive.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

Men over-estimate what they desire Through ignorance of it: credulous Pursuit Thinks his betrothed, Possession, is divine; But finds she is a mortal like himself.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.