Quotes About Ignorance

It is a delusion that, other than assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled, you can do anything to aid the realisation of your desire. You think that you can do something, you want to do something; but actually you can do nothing. The illusion of the free will to do is but ignorance of the law of assumption upon which all action is based. Everything happens automatically.

It is a marvelous thing to find that you can imagine yourself into the state of your fulfilled desire and escape from the jails which ignorance built.

This was what Napoleon had never understood

There will always be a war between light and darkness, between science and superstition, between education and ignorance. Ignorance is easier. It requires no study. Faith is the enemy of thought.

readers rarely accept arguments that challenge their interests. Even if they acknowledge at some level that there may be truth in what you say, they will blank out the unwelcome knowledge.

the transgressive had come clean, they would have had to accept that they lampooned the bigotry of Christianity and the wickedness of Western governments because they knew that Christians were not so bigoted and Western leaders were not so wicked that they would retaliate by trying to kill them, while the Islamists they ignored just might.

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived.

I believe in the power of origins, a belief that, as Ecclesiastes put it, 'that wich is done is that wich shall be done: and there is no new thing under de sun'; that we claim as originality and discovery are nothing but the airs and delusios of our innocence, ignorance, and arrogance: that whatever is said was said better - more powerfully, beautifully, and purely, long ago

The only dangerous thing about ignoramuses is when they vote for ignoramuses.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

There is an illiteracy of the soul which no diploma cures.

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

In general, "historical necessity" turns out to be merely a name for human stupidity.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.

Verdad es aquello que cualquier imbécil refuta.

EL mayor triunfo de la ciencia parece estar en la velocidad creciente con que el bobo puede trasladar su bobería de un sitio a otro sitio.

Photography shows us how the imbecile views the world.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Greatest fools are oft most satisfied.

A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.