Quotes About Ignorance

amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

The story illustrates that although we are often unaware of God's presence or of the intricacies of His plan, He nevertheless is present and has a plan, and our ignorance of it doesn't make it any less real.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it.

He is blind... He can't fear what he doesn't see.

La tiranía de los ignorantes es insuperable y está asegurada por siempre jamás. Dijo Einstein.

Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.

I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.

Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what it was they wanted, their fervor making up for their ignorance. His older self was cooler, more noncommittal, for he had learned that to publicize your goals means running the risk of falling short of them.

there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

They think rabbits lay eggs and a monkey jumped over the got-damn moon. Stupid bitches don't know shit. Rabbits don't lay no eggs. Go-rilla can't shoot no dice.

My job, always, was to hand him tools as he called for them and to hold the worklight, a bare bulb in an aluminum cage. It might have been different had I cared what a piston was, or were I interested in the proper consistency of cement. As it was, I never asked, and he never offered. Rather, I'd just stand there, my arm outstretched like a lawn jockey's.

His "wickedly selfish" Americans loved to celebrate their "own heritage, and on this condition are content to see others crushed in our midst.

In the 1880s, though, Douglass's fame still had to be couched in the racialized claim that he represented "the one, and apparently only one, exception to the general laziness and ignorance of the black population in the midst of which he was born.

that which he most loved i hated; and the very determination which he expressed to keep me in ignorance, only rendered me the more resolute in seeking intelligence

knowledge increased, but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance grew as well.

It's not what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you think you know that isn't so.

There's not much point in making logical arguments to someone who's already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so

as his mother had always told him, ignorance could be fixed; stupid was forever. "My

A fool who knew a little was far more dangerous than someone who at least had the wit to admit he knew nothing.

Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.