Quotes About Ignorance

Of our world of war, we are ignorant of our insignificance in the universes.

The greatest mistake we humans make is thinking we know all there is to know. The truth is; we know nothing and we shall continue to know nothing until the end of our existence.

Those whom say the youth know nothing are those whom know nothing themselves, as proven so by such a notion.

Your ignorance will blind your vision of the future and your place within it.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

A death is never good. It's never pleasant. We can only ignore it, until our time comes.

You have no idea what you have done.

Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something that does not exist.

If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.

To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead." - Cory Herndon

If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

We can be completely ignorant about how or why something works and yet still relish the results.

One can be truly happy only as long as one does not know how truly happy one is. Having

I'd say the depths of his stupidity have yet to be plumbed, and yours is comin' up fast on the inside turn.

I always wondered about men who spent their time trying to anticipate and know a fish in a world where man's knowledge of each other could only be called scarce. It just seemed to be gratuitously ignorant for any man to think that he could think like a fish.

Well, he doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear,' but then he doesn't know the meaning of a lot of words.

You would do well to consider this: all men may be brought to evil by what they hold most important, although few are ever made to realize this. For you, however, this truth will henceforth be inescapable, and will ever be a burden. Yet, as with all knowledge, it may also be a source of strength. Face it, use it, and it will make you far greater than any of those who remain in happy ignorance.

The less you know, the further away you are, the easier it is to shrug and tut and move on. And so Corrigan remains a town of barnacles. A cluster of hard shells that suck themselves stuck and clench themselves shut and choose not to know about dying.

See, everyone here's afraid of something and nuthin. This town, that's how they live, and they don't even know it. They stick to what they know, what they bin told. They don't unnerstand that it's just a choice you make.

A tree doesn't know it's a tree. It doesn't know how pretty its flowers are, or how beautiful they smell, or how soft and sweet its fruit is. It can't feel how warm I am with my arms around it. It can't hear me when I tell it these things. It doesn't know anything. I'm glad you're not a tree.