Quotes About Ignorance

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

The knowledge of what we are ignorant of seems to expand faster than our catalogue of breakthroughs.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...

Orwell's vision of our terrible future [...] - the world in which books are banned. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read them'.

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.

Yeah, but Marcus, aren't you afraid you've now introduced them to the competition?" If you're thinking this, let's be clear about something: If someone wants to know who your competitors are, roughly, how long will it take them to figure it out? Seconds, if they're slow! The reality is this: Consumer ignorance is no longer a viable sales and marketing strategy.

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.

Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

But the superiority of the British is that it is a matter of complete indifference to them if they appear to be stupid.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Oz really isn't so terrible, Judy. It's just that our parents always ignored us, so he started going around with people who made him feel important. They were spreading hate and used him just as they used me.

For there's nothing more foolish than a man who thinks he's clever, and nothing more wise than the man who knows that he is nothing.

There is no greater fool than he who thinks himself wise; no one wiser than he who suspects he is a fool.

During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.

Je sais que je ne sais pas ce que je ne sais pas.

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations.

Knowing a man for a fool, why should I trouble myself with his maggots?

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.