Quotes About Ignorance

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. You can't worry about them for a minute. They're hopeless.

jury of the ignorant and a judge with issues would award millions to the trespasser.

She believed in pursuing the truth of things rather than living in the pleasure of ignorance, and never before had a mystery as abstruse as this challenged her.

areas of knowledge about which he was ignorant and probably always would be. There was only so much time.

He'd been reading at a college level since he was seven years old, which maybe didn't mean a whole lot, considering that many college graduates didn't seem to know anything.

so perhaps in our postmodern rejection of the past, we cast aside more wisdom than ignorance.

not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

all-seeing and all-knowing. Evil and stupidity often go together, however, and arrogance is the offspring of their marriage

Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all.

I ignored what was going on behind my back because that was the only way I could deal with it.

There was a certain comfort in denial. This fragile peace with her consciousness had to be maintained at all costs. Ignored and buried.

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance and lies were often underrated. Most people Brendan knew couldn't make it through the day without a saucerful of ignorance and a side of lies.

We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we're the last to know.

Aye, lass, courage like that is uncommon rare. It wasna ignorance, mind; he'd just seen two men flogged and he knew the same was coming to him. It's just he had made up his mind there was no help for it. Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way for a Scotsman, ye ken, but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

Ah?" he said, vaguely. "No, I dinna think so. Still," he said with a smile, pulling his attention suddenly back to her, "I wouldna be likely to. A young burke of sixteen's too taken up wi' his own grand self to pay much heed to what he thinks are naught but a rabble of snot-nosed bairns.

What's that you two were shouting at each other?" He put his hands to his mouth and hooted, "GOOOOOON!" in a deep, echoing voice that made the others laugh. "Have ye never heard a war cry before?" Jamie asked, shaking his head at such ignorance. "Ye shout it in battle, to call your kin and your clan to your side.

I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

It's very interesting what you don't care about.

We've got to dumb America up again.

I get asked really dumb questions.

We used to say, There's nothing cool about being a dummy.

I had never taken any economics. I literally didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about the study of money.