Quotes About Ignorance

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

Affreuse condition de l'homme ! Il n'y a pas un de ses bonheurs qui ne vienne d'une ignorance quelconque.

A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

am fully convinced that it is impossible for a woman, even if she were born close to a throne, to acquire before the age of five-and-twenty the encyclopaedic knowledge of trifles, the practice of manoeuvring, the important small things, the musical tones and harmony of coloring, the angelic bedevilments and innocent cunning, the speech and the silence, the seriousness and the banter, the wit and the obtuseness, the diplomacy and the ignorance which make up the perfect lady.

But, after all, too much knowledge, like ignorance, brings you to a negation.

Gençler ho?görüden yoksundur, çünkü ne ya?am konusunda bir ?ey bilirler ne de onun güçlükleri konusunda.

Seguimos viendo, y quizá tememos a quienes están al tanto del daño que nos hacen, mientras que el que hiere ignorando la profundidad de su herida es tenido como un tonto, por un zote que no sabe sacar partido de nada y todo el mundo le desprecia.

Mother and daughter looked at one another as if Pons were speaking Chinese. No one can imagine how ignorant and exclusive Parisians are; they only learn what they are taught, and that only when they choose.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

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With the predominance of economic problems and economic thinking, which is overshadowing all other forms of human thinking, we remain completely ignorant of, and indifferent to, a more humanized knowledge and a more humanized philosophy, a philosophy that deals with the problems of the individual life.

Yes... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ...about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

Thing is, while I know better, I like sounding ignorant. Talk like this and people figure you're about as dumb as a fencepost, which suits me fine. Makes it all that much easier to take advantage of 'em.

It was peculiar how the more you got to know someone, the more you grew to appreciate how little you knew, how little you had ever known- as if progressive intimacy didn't involve becoming more perceptive, but growing only more perfectly ignorant.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

People fear what they don't understand.

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all.

It's clearly not a topic he wants to give any oxygen to.

It's amazing how boring you can get away with being when you're pretty. No one seems to notice. When you're pretty everyone just assumes you must have a great life. People are so short-sighted, sometimes. People are so stupid.