Quotes About Ignorance

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Quem diz que sabe exatamente como outra pessoa se sente é um idiota.

La suerte de las instituciones libres, el porvenir de la democracia y de la libertad serán siempre inseguros mientras la masas populares permanezcan en la ignorancia y atraso.

What fools these mortals be.

O miserable minds of men! O blind hearts! In what darkness of life, in what great dangers ye spend this little span of years!

the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

You might live on top of the biggest toxic waste dump on the planet, but if you never dig, then all you ever know is that your grass is green and your garden is lush.

You don't know what you don't know

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

it's that we don't know half of what we think we do. And we know ourselves least of all.

But you know, the word ignorance has an even more important word at its heart: ignore. And I don't think it's right to ignore the truth any longer.

The saying used to go 'what you don't know can't hurt you,' but it's changed in this world.  Now it's 'what you don't know can eat you.' From

T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.

Modern science shows that most common ailments in today's world are the result of nutritional ignorance.

why people do not study eschatology.

If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance....These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of truth....In such manner did I dream of the truth.

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

innocence is ignorance; ignorance is illusion; and Commencement, while it certainly is a metaphor, is no illusion. Commencement's for the disillusioned, not for the innocent.