Quotes About Ignorance

But ignorance of the father brought terror and fear, and terror grew dense like a fog, so that no one could see.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

And soon, as Tacitus put it, the Britons were dressing up in togas and taking their first steps on the path to vice, thanks to porticoes, baths and banquets. He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

Quo usque tandem ignorabitis vires vestras?' ('How long will you go on being ignorant of your strength?')

He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.

It never ceased to amaze Lacey how ignorant people were about deafness. Forget understanding Deaf Culture. Forget hearing people respecting them as a linguistic community with a shared history, language, and pride. That was way beyond most hearing people's understanding. Their perspective was that of pity, impairment, and fixing. Lacey was proud to be a Deaf woman, wouldn't want to become hearing for anything in the world.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Ignorance never settle a question.

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.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.

There are four kinds of people in this world: •those who make things happen •those who watch things happen •those who wonder what happened •those who don't know that anything happened! I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.

ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!

stupidity was an equal opportunity condition.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

comprehending little and caring less.