Quotes About Ignorance

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.

But ignorance manufactures denial. So though my eyes were sometimes black or swollen, my lips puffy or busted, though I often intentionally wore clothes that would hide the black and blue bruises scattered all over my body, or grit my teeth through the pain in an effort to walk so I could look as if nothing were wrong—when in fact my entire body was sore—I believed that as long as he didn't break any bones, it wasn't really violence.

You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it.

I haven't got the goddamnedest idea of what the hell you're talking about. Kierkeguard, what's that? Sounds like deodorant, which is to say that the whole thing smells as far as I'm concerned.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

She should know all there was to know - all that I knew, and, what was more important still, she should know that there was no more to know. Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination like Clementina's.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

People try not to think about what's going on in sub-Saharan Africa. They edit it out of their daily lives. Especially Americans. We prefer a fantasy version of Africa.

We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.

The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don't agree.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

As far as Vern and I go, we have had situations where people have tried to take photographs of me and cut Vernon out or vice versa in an attempt to create a scandal. But we just try and live our lives and ignore it.

Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.

We know of officers who develop inappropriate relationships with victims of domestic abuse. They have ignored their professional duty and their moral responsibility.

I didn't know much about video games.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.