Quotes About Ignorance

The ignorant rely on Providence they look to the stars for help instead of relying on themselves. Some artificiality creeps in: the hero is always the hero, the villain almost always acts villainously; there are few intermediate shades.

All knowledge, therefore, secular or spiritual, is in the human mind. In many cases it is not discovered, but remains covered, and when the covering is being slowly taken off, we say, "We are learning," and the advance of knowledge is made by the advance of this process of uncovering. The man from whom this veil is being lifted is the more knowing man, the man upon whom it lies thick is ignorant

It serves a demagogue well to set up a scapegoat or a public enemy to unite the populace behind him and by so doing, enable them to overlook incursions on human rights through fear and ignorance. It serves him well to designate a group as other and, for that reason, treat them as inferior, subhuman, and ineligible for the protection of the laws of civilized society.

Divido a la humanidad en dos campos bien diferenciados. Por un lado, el puñado de los que saben de qué se trata; por el otro, la inmensa multitud de los que no lo saben.

Hâlâ çok gençtim ve insanl???n büyük ço?unlu?unun aptalca hikâyelere ve yalanlara inanacak derecede cahil olu?u beni çok ?a??rt?yordu. Dünyadaki misyonumun hakikat yolunda çabalay?p insanlar?n gözlerini açmak, onlar? yan?lg?lar?ndan dolay?s?yla da sahtekârlar?n elinde oyunca olmaktan kurtarmak oldu?u fikrine kap?lm??t?m.

Like so many aging college people, Pnin had long since ceased to notice the existence of students on the campus.

Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

As though it had always been forbidden to remember each of us grew up knowing nothing about the beginning

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

I don't know anything about computers.

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Tis the ignorant who boast.