Quotes About Ignorance

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

Education is a progressive discovery of your own ignorance.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

Mirar los errores pasados con compasión no significa ser permisivo con ellos, sino ver en ciertas actuaciones nuestra ignorancia y no nuestra maldad. Quien ve ignorancia tras un error busca la corrección; quien ve maldad busca el castigo.

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Los que a sabiendas hieren y matan y torturan, se creen fieles lacayos de la muerte, pero esos imbéciles no saben que, desde tiempo inmemorial, la parquísima inmola a sus lacayos. Cuando

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

It just seems like we --human beings -- know so much, but it's nothing compared to what we don't know.

Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

But that was war. Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Just as there is evil in the world, so is there good. Despite those filled with prejudice, hate, and intolerance, acceptance and understanding are becoming more commonplace. The ignorance and lies of the past are disappearing and a new world stands before us. Friendship, understanding, and compassion are more powerful things than hate, and will one day lead us all to a better place...

We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During

These local yokels couldn't find their own asses if you tattooed their names on each cheek.

My students, alas, usually lack the confidence to acknowledge what would be their most precious asset for learning: their ignorance.

sense is made not by coercing the facts or pumping up the rhetorical volume. Sense is made by sifting through the sand of our ignorance to find, here and there, the words and thoughts that persuade ourselves (truly) and perhaps consequently to persuade others.

And what about the person who's on the defensive? Initially, this human punching bag is frustrated because no matter what he or she is trying to mirror outward——I'm sorry, I'm confused, I'm scared, I had a good reason for what I did—the ignorant blamer is blind to it. As a result, the person who's under attack is usually in a state of quiet, barely controlled rage.