Quotes About Ignorance

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Drugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Hay un proverbio persa: "Examinar lo que ha sido examinado es ignorancia". Intentar examinar algo sin los medios para hacerlo es aún peor.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Intellectual: One who knows no craft.

People in this civilization are starving in the middle of plenty. This is a civilization that is going down, not because it hasn't got the knowledge that would save it, but because nobody will use the knowledge.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Drogas: fuente de la experiencia mística del ignorante.

If you want to nourish your stupidity, try a little avarice.

Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

La ignorancia es la madre de la oposición.

Quien vaya a ser sabio se menosprecia a sí mismo. Sólo los ignorantes confían en su propio juicio.

Un pájaro que no ha oído hablar del agua fresca hunde su pico en agua salada año tras año.

El hombre más estúpido que he conocido, tenía un dicho favorito. Era: "¿Qué te crees que soy: estúpido... o qué?

Aprendan cuánto conocimiento se necesita antes de que podamos ver lo ignorantes que somos.

Many a "learned" man is destroyed by ignorance and by the learning which is of no use to him' (Hadrat Ahmed ibn Mahsud, the Sufi).

Muchos eruditos son destruidos por la ignorancia y por el conocimiento que no saben utilizar.

Eres lo suficientemente ignorante para esperar equitación de un herrero?

PEOPLE Kick them -- they'll forgive you. Flatter them -- they may or may not see through you. But ignore, them, and they'll hate you, even if they conceal it until they die.

Arrogance is blindness.