Quotes About Ignorance

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!

Strike the ignorants with the hammer of knowledge, wherever and whenever you see them!

Talking wisely to the ignorant is throwing precious seeds to the desert sands!

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

The tram can run over you only if you are on the tram way! The darkness can run over you only if you are on the ignorance way!

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!

Till the sun of knowledge shines on the ignorant masses and till all the men start hating violence, the world shall find no peace!

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

There is nothing more daring than ignorance.

You wouldn't know an Ionic entablature if it bit you on your portico.

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

For decades, large sections of the Zionist movement ignored the fact that there were Arabs living in Palestine.

I'm the smartest person I know and I've never read a book in my life.

Shall we educate ourselves in what is known, and then casting away all we have acquired, turn to ignorance for aid to guide us among the unknown?

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." -Ayn Rand

Aptal, bilge oldu?unu zanneder ama bilge, aptal oldu?unu bilir." - Shakespeare

Maybe we didn't want to know. Couldn't let ourselves know.

We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within them. Beyond the light of one's own personal experience-darkness. What are people thinking? What are they feeling? How do they behave? Messages of reassurance or exhortation come through. One reads between the lines. Friends pool their knowledge. But in general we live like animals, in ignorance of the world around us.

Who needs terrorists or mother nature when through our own stupidity we do things like this.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to communicate precisely because they emphasize cause and effect.

Prejudice is ignorance.