Quotes About Ignorance

Stupidity is always expensive

I have begun to imagine human knowledge and ignorance as tracing a curve of asymptotic divergence, such that with every increase in knowledge, there occurs a greater increase in ignorance, the result being that our ignorance always exceeds our knowledge, and the gap between the two grows infinitely greater, not smaller, as infinite time passes.

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I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.

It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically false. Look for yourself. This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance, it was done by dogma, it was done by ignorance.

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

Denying God is admiting your ignorance.

Mi joven amigo, mucho me complace vuestra ignorancia; es tan valiosa como la doctrina de los demás: al menos no vivís en el error y, si bien no estáis instruido, sois susceptible de estarlo. Vuestro natural, la franqueza de vuestro carácter, la rectitud de vuestro espíritu, me agradan.

Me agrada tu ignorancia, joven camarada, tiene más valor que la doctrina de los demás: tú, al menos no estás en el error, y si no eres instruido, eres capaz de llegar a serlo.

The events I've chosen to record are only the most spectacular manifestations of forces that - out of fear, ignorance, everyday stupidity — are deemed 'obscure'. But it's now an indisputable fact that the most innocent words, the most harmless gestures in certain places and at certain times acquire an unwonted importance and weight, and have repercussions that far exceed what was intended.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Declaration of Conscience," delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy's "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." She and Kefauver were thus allies against

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

You can't tell nobody what they don't know—not even that they don't know

The boy is so stupid; to count to twenty-one he'd have to drop his pants.

La "explicación" mítica que adelantó el presidente sobre la situación de violencia mostró la pobreza analítica de quienes lo asesoraron, el desconocimiento del surgimiento y las transformaciones del campo criminal y particularmente el tráfico de drogas ilegales, y de sus reflexiones sobre el tema al avalarla.

The worthiest among human beings, said Diogenes according to Stobaeus (3.86.19), are those who despise learning and prefer a state of ignorance-ignorance understood not in the sense of not knowing anything, but in the sense of dispensing with unnecessary learning and acquiring only the knowledge that is sufficient for a good and simple life. This is what Diogenes identified as the only meaning and purpose of philosophy.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis.

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.