Quotes About Ignorance

I realized that all this explained him, and it wasn't the words he said which angered me. It was only that he was so ignorant, that he knew nothing of the gypsy summer, nothing of the loss I was fighting to endure, of skylarks and splashes and petal-bearing breezes, he had not seen Leper's snails or the Charter of the Super Suicide Society; he shared nothing, knew nothing, felt nothing as Phineas had done.

it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

I could never agree with either of them. It would have been comfortable, but I could not believe it. Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.

Wars were made by something ignorant in the human heart

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

So oft in theologic wars, / The disputants, I ween, / Rail on in utter ignorance / Of what each other mean, / And prate about an Elephant / Not one of them has seen.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Literacy in itself is no education.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

The enemy of learning is knowing.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance.

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.