Quotes About Ignorance

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Harry? Bob asked. Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids? I blinked. What? Earth to Dresden, Bob said. You are standing knee-deep in de Nile.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

I hate it when the real world ignores a perfectly logical, rational assumption.

in the course of my life, I have more than once been too ignorant to know that something was impossible before I did it anyway.

Reason. Reason was my next line of defense. Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

Stupid's everywhere, every day.

As a race, we're an enormous bunch of idiots. We're more than capable of ignoring facts if the conclusions they lead to make us too uncomfortable. Or afraid.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them," I told him. "It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Please don't assume that I do not realize secrets are being kept from me. Tolerance is not the same as ignorance.

Over the years I've learned that ignorance is more than just bliss. It's freaking orgasmic ecstasy.

By not letting places be themselves we show our contempt for them. We bury them in sentiment, then suffocate them to death in one way or another. I can ruin both the desert and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by carrying to them an insufferable load of distinctions that disallows actually seeing the flora and fauna or the paintings. Children are usually better at finding mushrooms and arrowheads because they are either ignorant of or unwilling to carry the load.

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading them. But there is an impulse within them, favored by their natures and reinforced by their habits, which they do not resist; it continues to propel them forward as long as they have a remnant of strength. He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.1 Leopold von Ranke

O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.

She was always a good deal of trouble, and I suspect she will reappear when I least want to see her, skirts too long, shy to the point of aggravation, always the injured party, full of recriminations and little hurts and stories I do not want to hear again, at once saddening me and angering me with her vulnerability and ignorance, an apparition all the more insistent for being so long banished.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Call me cynical if you like. But it all sounds a bit too convenient. The Authorized Version of events leaves out a number of details, which Creationists seem content to ignore. I personally have my doubts – not least about the giant cow – although even now you have to beware of how you express these sentiments.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance. And then, you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts, but lived them.