Quotes About Ignorance

Popper rightly believed that the public-not just scientists or philosophers-needs to understand and appreciate that distinction, because science is too powerful and important, and pseudoscience too common and damaging, for an open society to afford ignorance on the matter.

Por costumbre, todo cuanto fuera contra la Iglesia quedaba más o menos alejado de mi vida y de la vida de todos los religiosos y religiosas. No es que no pudiéramos saber —que podíamos—, es que no queríamos; a priori, no nos gustaba escuchar este tipo de acusaciones y hacíamos oídos más o menos sordos a los escándalos anticlericales.

Ay, los hombres, qué necios!

Cada cual mira los acontecimientos desde su esquina, con el rostro vuelto hacia la pared para no ver lo que no quiere.

A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.' – Socrates (after losing our quiz!!!!)

After reading the news, I go on Twitter. I don't have an account but I find it interesting - all the different voices, the squabbles, the arrogance of certainty, the ignorance, the occasional, but wonderful, compassion, and watching the evolution of language head towards a new kind of hieroglyphics.

The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.

The Dark Ages never ended.

As a species, we love to divide things up. We draw a straight line in a map between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while the water remains oblivious.

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don't just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it's often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is

the main lesson of history is: humans don't learn from history.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing - Socrates

No one is killed for witchcraft now.' 'Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

People believed in witches because it made things easier. People don't just need an enemy, they need an explanation. And it's often useful, in unsettled times, where ignorance is everywhere, for people to believe in witches . . . Who do you think believed in witches?

Ignorance changes over time. But it is always there, and it remains just as lethal.

Nimic nu dureaza la nesfarsit. Durerea asta n-o sa tina la nesfarsit. Durerea minte. Ignor-o! Durerea e o datorie pe care o platesti cu timpul.

A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.

Y vivir la segregación en mis carnes? No, gracias. Creo que prefiero quedarme en casa y ser un ignorante.

I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.

Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?