Quotes About Ignorance

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

Ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse for accused criminals, and it cannot be an excuse for members of Congress.

I say every slur on the planet - racial, homosexual, everything to do with every ethnic group on the planet - and guess what? I will never apologize for that because I know why I do it, and it is to make a valid point about ignorance in this society.

I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

We ignore our own history. We ignore all these values and valuable people who really changed everything, who sacrificed their own lives for a better America.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of wilful blindness.

All the great unanswered questions of the world will be answered. Who are we? What are we here for? Where will we end up? And most important of all: Can mankind actually get any stupider?

Prejudice is best lubricated with ignorance

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition, Inspector.

porque los libros siempre acaban cobrando vida propia, y porque uno no escribe acerca de lo que quiere, sino de lo que puede...un escritor no escribe nunca acerca de lo que conoce, sino precisamente de lo que ignora.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.