Quotes About Ignorance

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better. Kushner is an entitled baby who knows nothing. Bannon is an arrogant prick who thinks he's smarter than he is. Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.

If Trump cared about something, he usually already had a fixed view based on limited information. If he didn't care, he had no view and no information.

He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing.

Almost all the professionals who were now set to join him were coming face to face with the fact that it appeared he knew nothing. There was simply no subject, other than perhaps building construction, that he had substantially mastered.

But not only didn't he read, he didn't listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else's. What's more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.

It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot (Trump) surrounded by clowns. Trump won't read anything - not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.

Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obrious fact that the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn't know, did not particularly care, and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

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It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Sólo espero de los que ignoran, pero no se resignan a ignorar; de los que luchan sin descanso por la verdad y ponen su vida en la lucha misma más que en la victoria.

Ni sabe el pueblo qué es fe ni acaso le importa mucho

Pero el secreto! Vivir sin conocer el secreto del pasado... No saber quién fue, qué fue lo que fue... Resignarse así a ignorar... No tener la solución...

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.