Quotes About Ignorance

Men are blind in their own cause.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Is it not wonderful, then, that we should be so sensitive upon the discovery of a fault which must of necessity be common to all, and that in its highest degree?

I was bound to step out of line, if only because I did not know where the line was: if only because I did not know anything.

The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh, the rain—the rain that falls on England and rots the grain, puts out the light in the man's eye and the light of learning too, for who can reason if Oxford is a giant puddle and Cambridge is washing away downstream, and who will enforce the laws if the judges are swimming for their lives?

History is not the past - it is the method we have evolved to organize our ignorance of the past. It is the record of what's left on the record... It is no more 'the past' than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey.

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

was proud of what he did. He thought if you let the people read God's word for themselves, Christendom would fall apart. There would be no more government, no more justice.' 'He believed this? Truly?' 'That we needed the constraint of ignorance? Yes.' 'He did not give much credit to his fellow man.

The only things he cannot remember are the things he never knew. His

Own profit be made and let public go to hell. In a city of deaf and dumb, who listens to whom (Apna kam banta bhad me jaye janta. Gunge behro ki nagri me kaun kisi ki sunta )

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Medicine is the most distinguished of all the arts, but through the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who casually judge such practitioners, it is now of all the arts by far the least esteemed.

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why there would be no end of divine things!

G]li uomini sono vigliacchi. Hanno paura di quello che non vedono e non capiscono, e per placare quella paura trovano spiegazioni senza senso. Per questo tua madre è stata uccisa. Perché lei sapeva parlare con gli oni . Allora l'hanno accusata d'essere la reincarnazione d'una volpe. Ma una volpe non si trasformerebbe mai in un essere umano. Se potesse mutare aspetto, sceglierebbe un animale.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

I think you impressed him with the sheer force of your stupidity.

When we fall that first time, we're not really in love with the girl. We're in love with being in love. We've got no idea what she's really about—or what she's capable of. We're in love with our idea of her and of who we become around her. We're idiots.

He is out in the garden, picking a bouquet of foxgloves. He's laughing, sunlight turning his brown hair gold… I bet he doesn't even know those flowers are poison.

These clothes are a costume for me. I am playing dress-up in ignorance

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

I had to face it - there were warning signs I chose to ignore when I first fell in love with him

By their own follies they perished, the fools.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.