Quotes About Ignorance

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

One who cannot live in harmony with others is regarded as an ignorant fool, even if he happens to be very learned in various matters.

It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.

Il faut un double soleil pour éclairer le fond de la bêtise humaine.

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

The beautiful woman next to him snorted and murmured something that sounded like, "Asshole Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â The man's face gave a very slight twitch of irritation, but otherwise he ignored her.

So I sat for a few more minutes, trying to think, and realizing only that I was still not as good at it as I used to be. Maybe I never really was. I'd probably just been stumbling along wrapped in a cloud of ignorant luck, unaware that there was a huge storm of Retribution trailing along behind me. It had caught up to me at last, and I wasn't going to think myself out of it.

People would always rather muddle along in their own dim, blundering way than have someone else point out where they were going wrong—even if that other person is clearly brighter.

The killer wanted to be noticed—by all of us, of course, which was why the body had been displayed so publicly. But far more important, he had wanted the victim to pay attention to him, truly and completely see him, appreciate his significance. I thought about that for a minute, and it felt right. You should have noticed me, but you didn't. You ignored me and now your eye will pay for what your eyes failed to do.

Prejudice and idiotic ideas—about race, AIDS, Covid, STDs—only exist in the vacuum of ignorance. Give people energy, and they'll have not only lighting, but enlightenment.

He explained that he had arrived at college without knowing much about religion, and how, from reading English literature, he'd begun to realize how ignorant he was. The world had been formed by beliefs he knew nothing about. 'That was the beginning,' he said, 'realizing how stupid I was.

Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.

Like Jefferson, Brandeis believed that the greatest threat to our constitutional liberties was an uneducated citizenry, and that democracy could not survive both ignorant and free. And

dass die Erde eher wie eine Müllhalde ist, die verschiedenen Zeiten fallen im Dunkeln, den Mund mit Erde gefüllt, übereinander her, die eine begattet die andre, ohne fruchtbar zu sein, und der Fortschritt besteht immer wieder nur darin, dass die, die auf dieser Erde herumgehen, von alldem nichts wissen.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.