Quotes About Ignorance

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.

The robust English view used to be that the correct response to offensive words is to ignore them, or to answer them with a rebuke. If you invoke the law at all, it should be to protect the one who gives the offence, and not the one who takes it. Now, it seems, it is all the other way round.

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

There's nothing wrong about not knowing something. The stupid people are the ones who think they know everything.

The everyday Joes, like you and me, a lot of them know nothing firsthand and think they know everything. And they talk-talk-talk-talk and post their opinions all over the Internet and it's loud and ridiculous. It's like we're all in this ship of fools and nobody knows if the boat is even real." Jack looks at me.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.

Contemporary medical technology is not an advancement in medicine- it indicates the failure of Caucasian medical science and is a sign of ignorance. Technology cannot replace the human ability to diagnose disease by looking, touching and smelling to perform treatments without drugs.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

He felt that his soul had remained among the pirates – he was young and from the country and still ignorant of Love's piracies.

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

The witless destroy what they don't understand.

Adan necesitó a alguien, sin duda. Jamais habría tenido el coraje de comerse esa manzana él solito. Eva tendría que habérsela comido sin decirle nada e dejarlo andar errante como un asno por el Edén, un bruto ignorante idéntico a los otros brutos que lo rodeaban. el muy idiota ni siquera sabía que estaba desnudo. Y quem diablos cosió esos taparraboos de hojas de figuera, te pregunto? Él no habrá sido, de eso puede estar seguro.

When I hear the ignorant things people say about the war, about it all being over slavery, I want to shout that it isn't. It isn't that at all. Remember

Ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

The stupid girl thinks Muslim is a language.

The most ignorant young man, who knows nothing of the needs of women, thinks himself a competent legislator, because he is a man," Pankhurst told the crowd, eyeing the Harvard men. "This aristocratic attitude is a mistake.

No nation can be freer than its most oppressed, richer than its poorest, wiser than its most ignorant.

He who is most content with the least has the most," and "I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.