Quotes About Ignorance

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get.

Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

The road to happiness, Genevieve, is perhaps the road to oblivion.

And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn't even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

We cannot love something solely because it has been ignored. It must also be worthy of our attention.

People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive

That feeling. That's the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made.

You don't know you're born. You don't. You don't know you're born

Maybe a certain kind of ignorance was the condition. Into the pure nothingness of my non-knowledge something sublime (an event?) beyond (beneath?) consciousness was able to occur.

The only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving toward genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my argument by writing well").

Laimingas tas, kur? aploja kvailiai,nes jo siela niekada jiems nepriklausys

elegance loses its power in the presence of the properly stupid

People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

Now, Pheoby, don't feel too mean wid de rest of 'em 'cause dey's parched up from not knowin' things.

They came in wagons [...] People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.

Man, like all the other animals, fears and is repelled by that which he does not understand, and mere difference is apt to connote something malign. --Essay What White Publishers Won't Print (Negro Digest, April 1950)

Indians don't know much uh nothin', tuh tell de truth. Else dey'd own dis country still.

I don't think I know everything because I don't watch much news from abroad.

I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.

I've read only fiction, so I don't know anything actual.

I never really had an opinion about the Al Muhajiroun; I didn't really know enough about them.

I didn't know Alan Pardew before football at all.