Quotes About Ignorance

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder how the hell they remember to breathe every morning.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

Some things in life are better off being ignored. Life's full of the ugly and the beautiful. Why focus too much on the ugly?

We get soo offended when labeled with the word 'ignorant' but all that means is just being uninformed, unaware we all are.

Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

Every time I was ever a fool, I was always the last one to figure it out.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

You can't control what people say about you. Even those who know least about you will want to talk about you and would say a lot of negative opinions that will hurt your reputation. What is important is that you take note of those who are ignorant about you and those who really know you.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

The ignorant will cling stubbornly to their beliefs. That's why its best to give people the benefit of the doubt and not argue with others.

Never be too pompous to take simple advice. For ignorance will be your demise.

Manners cost you nothing but ignorance will cost you everything.

People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.

A woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.

RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.

I am merely noting that the creation of native prostitutes to service foreign privates is an inevitable outcome of a war of occupation, one of those nasty little side effects of defending freedom that all the wives, sisters, girlfriends, mothers, pastors, and politicians in Smallville, USA, pretend to ignore behind waxed and buffed walls of teeth as they welcome their soldiers home, ready to treat any unmentionable afflictions with the penicillin of American goodness.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

This is what I think so many of us who work in the arts and the humanities hope to receive from our universities, from our government, from sometimes skeptical students and their parents: patience and faith in us as we test the limits of our ignorance, as we pursue what may very well be useless, as we go in search of that mystery and intuition that exist within all of us.

It was an act of faith, and faith would not be faith if it was not hard, if it was not a test, if it was not an act of willful ignorance, of believing in something that can neither be predicted nor proved by any scientific metric.

The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

A person without learning is like a beast dressed up in man's clothes in the field.