Quotes About Ignorance

But then again, you could never underestimate the stupidity of some people.

intel and no one gave it a second thought.

never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's. "And

few governmental institutions are more misunderstood and feared out of ignorance than the Federal Reserve Board.

Hemingway had always considered ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

ignorance and intolerance to be like commas, because you often found them in pairs, and almost never did you find one, ignorance, without its evil twin, intolerance.

And when they were elected, they arrived in Washington with absolutely no idea what to do. Their only goal had already been achieved: They had won their campaign. However

For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

perhaps because we have at present no coherent world view, there is a widespread tendency to ignore the psychological and social importance of such questions almost altogether.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one — until you can show it isn't you.

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

Now there's something for you to think about. If you don't know that you can't do something, isn't there a remote possibility that you'll go ahead and do it anyway in absolute defiance of physical law? That might be one of the drawbacks of education. If you don't know that you can't pick yourself up by the scruff of the neck and hold yourself at arm's length, maybe you can.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong

Naive people are, more or less by definition, unaware that they're naive.

naïveté is the last true terrible sin in the theology of millennial America.

Ci sono due pesci che nuotano e a un certo punto incontrano un pesce anziano che va nella direzione opposta, fa un cenno di saluto e dice: Salve, ragazzi. Com'è l'acqua? I due pesci giovani nuotano un altro po', poi uno guarda l'altro e fa Che cavolo è l'acqua?».

The poor bitch is clueless. All of them are clueless, still.

Troeltsch's so dumb he thinks a manila folder's a Filipino contortionist.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

But man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd— His glassy essence—like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.