Quotes About Ignorance

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

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

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

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Qutb argued that the modern world had fallen back into the period of pre-Islamic ignorance and barbarism that had existed prior to the Prophet. Secular Muslims, or even Muslims who did not abide by strict sanctions, were subject to takfir, excommunication, and thus were fair game to be killed.

los líderes de los países pobres son ignorantes. La consecuencia es que las políticas no se adoptan ni se implantan, o se implantan solamente de nombre.

Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality.

After all, if ignorance were the problem, well-meaning leaders would quickly learn what types of policies increased their citizens' incomes and welfare, and would gravitate toward those policies.

I stop reading after half an hour. I've had enough. Humanity has hit a brick wall. We're facing our end, like the dinosaurs millions of years before us. The only difference is we've got journalists on hand to document every blow and setback, cataloguing our rapid, painful downfall in vibrant, vicious detail. Personally, I think the dinosaurs had the better deal. When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

Americans are born knowing everything and nothing. Born moving forward, quickly, or thinking they are.

The less people seem to know about something, the more they pontificate on it.