Quotes About Ignorance

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

I'll show you how, Peter said. Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

As she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large number of things she had no idea what to do. Peter had been right to object to her ignorance. It's not that I'm lazy, she explained to Waif as they arrived in what seemed to be stables, or stupid. I've just not bothered to look round the edges of Mother's way of doing things, you see.

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

After this, Boy became very curious about the mansion where the clothes and the food came from. He made me describe everything. Then he asked Good Thing 'Are there books in this mansion, too?' 'And pictures and jewels,' Good Thing said through me. 'What does Master wish me to fetch? There is a golden harp, a musical box like a bird, a—' 'Just books,' said Boy. 'I need to learn. I'm still so ignorant.

I'm sorry for when you asked me about Soviet foreign policy I said , Who gives a $@!&?

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

What makes it noteworthy is that a striking coincidence has made it a cleverer trick than they could have known. For the book is a rather silly story about a governess and two haunted children. I am afraid that in it Mr. James exposes the extent of his ignorance. He knows little about children and nothing at all about governesses

Like I've said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.

What I've come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell.

Why are free spirits always so fucking dumb?

He liked to mingle with shopping mall crowds. "I'm counting on you to tell me, Jack." "Tell you what?" "You're the only person I know that's educated enough to give me the answer." "The answer to what?" "Were people this dumb before television?" One

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Were we a fragile unit surrounded by hostile facts? Would I promote ignorance, prejudice and superstition to protect my family from the world?

What the hell does the Jewish Museum know about Guatemalan pricks? This particular prick isn't even circumcised.

When I ignore my neighbor (instead of loving him or her as Jesus commands), I am rolling around in my old grave clothes, rather than living as a new creation.

As human nature is essentially rational, it follows that the highest form of excellence, and the key to living harmoniously, is the perfection of reason or wisdom, and the greatest vice is folly or ignorance.

Alas, sometimes clever people are too clever for our good. Some well-meaning plumbing designers have decided that consistency should be ignored in favor of their own, private brand of psychology.

for always the greatest obstacle to intellectual and moral progress with Socrates is people's unwillingness to confront their own ignorance.

We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority.

his own world lived in constant discovery of its own ignorance.

It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing," he said. "You are like children. Afraid of the dark.

It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing, he said. You are like children. Afraid of the dark.

Is it easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness.