Quotes About Ignorance

You cannot find knowledge by rearranging your ignorance.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Ignorance is the peace of life.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Teach them what they don't know but most importantly enlighten them on what they know but have become ignorant to the details.

Gilberte belonged, during those years at least, to the most widespread variety of human ostriches, the kind that bury their heads not in the hope of not being seen, which they consider highly improbable, but in the hope of not seeing that they can be seen, which seems to them something to the good and enables them to leave the rest to chance.

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice: I preferred not to see them;

In leaving Balbec, I had imagined that I was leaving Gomorrah, plucking Albertine from it; in reality, alas, Gomorrah was dispersed to all the ends of the earth. And partly out of jealousy, partly out of ignorance of such joys (a case which is rare indeed), I had arranged unawares this game of hide and seek in which Albertine was always to escape me.

La vera terra dei barbari non è quella che non ha mai conosciuto l'arte, ma quella che, disseminata di capolavori, non sa né apprezzarli né conservarli.

For it is a charming law of nature, which manifests itself in the heart of the most complex social organisms, that we live in perfect ignorance of those we love.

I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them;

In any case, Swann was blind not only to the gaps in Odette's education, but also to her poverty of mind. Indeed, when she told one of her silly stories, he would listen to her full of an obliging, cheerful, even admiring attentiveness, which could be explained only by his finding her still sexually arousing;

Nada te asombre por comparación con el recuerdo; asómbrate de todo por la novedad de la ignorancia.

As the island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance –the boundary between the known and the unknown. Learning more about the world doesn't lead to a point closer to a final destination but to more questions and mysteries.

Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.

Second, because of their ignorance, some refused to believe a child who tried to tell them about the abuse. Indeed, in some circumstances, the abused child was beaten by a parent for having the nerve to suggest their beloved clergy would do something so heinous, so abuse piled on top of abuse.

I'd seen all the ingredients; I'd just refused to see what they made. So

La gente instruida es tan mala como la ignorante, sólo que con más argumentos.