Quotes About Ignorance

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

It is through ignorance of the Unconscious psyche and through the pursuit of an exclusive cult of Consciousness that our era has become so completely atheist and profane.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

O! more than Gothic ignorance.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

By ignorance the truth is known.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Ignorance is the womb of monsters

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

pero es usted más ignorante e insensato que un chiquillo que jugando con las piezas de un reloj hábilmente fabricado osara decir, porque no comprende su utilidad, que no cree en el hombre que lo ha hecho.

Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge he needed impossible.

All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring in this?

The first was that of ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity. People of this sort -- chiefly women, or very young or very dull people -- have not yet understood that question of life which presented itself to Schopenhauer, Solomon, and Buddha.

I looked more widely around me. I looked at the lives of the multitudes who have lived in the past and who live today. And of those who understood the meaning of life I saw not two, or three, or ten, but hundreds, thousands and millions. And all of them, endlessly varied in their customs, minds, educations and positions, and in complete contrast to my ignorance, knew the meaning of life and death, endured suffering and hardship, lived and died and saw this not as vanity but good.

He was a very stupid and very self-satisfied and very healthy and very well-washed man, and nothing else.

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