Quotes About Ignorance

A prova de que estou recuperando a saúde mental, é que estou cada minuto mais permissiva: eu me permito mais liberdade e mais experiências. E aceito o acaso. Anseio pelo que ainda não experimentei. Maior espaço psíquico. Estou felizmente mais doida. E minha ignorância aumenta. A diferença entre o doido e o não doido é que o não doido não diz nem faz as coisas que pensa.

Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

If my life is transformed into it-self, the thing I today call sensitivity will not exist — it will be called indifference. But I cannot yet grasp that way. It is as if hundreds of thousands of years from now we are finally no longer what we feel and think: we shall have something that more closely resembles a "mood" than an idea. We shall be the living matter revealing itself directly, ignorant of word, surpassing thought which is always grotesque.

I am the priestess of a secret that I no longer know. And I serve out of blissful ignorance. I found out something I was unable to understand, my lips became sealed, and I retained only the incomprehensible fragments of a ritual.

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

Lo sentí cercano, hay mucha gente que no es ciega y, de todos modos, no quiere ver. Quizá tomándoles la mano lo logren

joined all the "woke" white men who set their privilege outside themselves—as in, I know better than to be ignorant or defensive about my status in our world. Never mind that that capacity to set himself outside the pattern of white male dominance is the privilege. There's no outrunning the kingdom, the power, and the glory.

A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one's arse from one's elbow.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

the NATO aircraft that are held to be the worst thing in the world by those who have no idea how bad the world can get.

During the few minutes that Lewis was away, Morse was acutely conscious of the truth of the proposition that the wider the circle of knowledge the greater the circumference of ignorance.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Dog bark at what they don't understand.

Dogs bark at what they don't understand.

What is not yet known those blinded by bad faith can never learn.

Sin duda los imbéciles pasan por ser dichosos. Pero la ignorancia no podía combatir el mal, sino sólo ignorarlo.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

rational is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression

The condition in which the pagan world dwells outside of the special revelation is portrayed in Holy Scripture as darkness, ignorance, self-invented wisdom, and great unrighteousness. The preaching that addresses them is thus a calling to come out of darkness into the light; it is an invitation to be converted from idols and to serve the living and true God.

Poëzie: de enige plaats waar onwetendheid het van academisme kan winnen.

Some people are stupid but they know it and can deal with it. They are the smart stupid people. The stupid stupid people are those who are so stupid that they think they're smart. Holdoffer not only fell into that category, he owned it.

He left not knowing where he was going, he got there not knowing where he was, and he came back not knowing where he had been. But history books will point out Columbus as the person who made the Americas available for exploitation. I guess I can make the same kind of ridiculous claim.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.