Quotes About Ignorance

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The pompous son of a bitch knows everything—it's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

I discovered the whitewashed wall beneath the window slick and syrupy with an abundance of goo. Since I didn't know what masturbation was, I of course didn't know what ejaculate was. I thought it was pus. I thought it was phlegm. I didn't know what to think, except that it was something terrible.

Really, can they be this blind? Can people be so abysmally stupid and live?

he spoke from ignorance then, and admits as much today.

There's a plot afoot all right, and I'll gladly name the forces propelling it—hysteria, ignorance, malice, stupidity, hatred, and fear.

All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

Lo llamaban convivencia: vivir unos junto a otros en armonía, sin importar sus creencias, puesto que el enemigo no es aquel que cree en un dios; el enemigo es la ignorancia y la gente que no cree en nada y no se preocupa por nada.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

L'ennemi est con, il croit que c'est nous l'ennemi alors que c'est lui

But I've been dead much longer than I lived, and I have had the chance to educate myself in that that I lacked in life. I wasn't stupid when I lived, just ignorant. There's a lot to learn, simply by watching the follies of the living.

Had he known of this on the way over—but of course that was the thing about information. Without it, a person suffered enormous complications.

It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error.

ignorance of isolation breeds unwarranted hostility.

The Teachers, even of Christianity, are in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible. To most who read it, it is as incomprehensible as the Sohar. p. 105