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Quotes About Ignorance

Neler okudu?unu sordum. Surat?n? buru?turarak: 'Bir sürü macera roman?,' dedi. Sonra gururlanarak: 'Cyrano de Bergerac'? da okudum,' dedi. Durdu. 'Burnu sizinkine benziyor.' Bu ?akay? bana çok yapt?klar?n? söyledim. Bozuldu. 'Haberim yoktu,' dedi.
~ Unknown
Le plus grand danger de la bombe d'un terroriste est dans l'explosion de bêtise qu'elle provoque
~ Octave Mirbeau
You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.
~ Octavia E. Butler
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all."9
~ Octavia E. Butler
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like … like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about." "Don't warn Joanne or any of your other friends
~ Octavia E. Butler
Thanks to malnutrition, climate change, poverty, and ignorance, a lot of old diseases are back, and some of them are contagious
~ Octavia E. Butler
This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
This is just more denial: A dumb little game of "If we don't talk about bad things, maybe they won't happen.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
~ Ogden Nash
My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus. I can't tell a string-bean from a soybean, or even a girl bean from a boy bean
~ Ogden Nash
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
~ Ogden Nash
Thus, though there is normally no such thing as sin among the stars, no deliberate choice of the course known to be wrong for the sake of some end known to be irrelevant, there is ignorance, and consequent aberration from the pattern of the ideal as revealed to stars of somewhat maturer mentality.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!ç
~ Unknown
Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!
~ Unknown
But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars – it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Marta háza olyan, mint ? – hozzá hasonlóan nem ismer semmit, sem Istent, sem a teremtményeit, s?t saját magát sem, semmit sem akar tudni a világról. Egyetlen pillanat van benne, csak a "most", az viszont óriási, minden irányban elnyúlik, agyonnyom, nem embernek való.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Un citoyen ignoré par l'administration est, d'une certaine façon, voué à la non-existence. Il ne faut toutefois pas ignorer qu'une personne privée de ses droits n'a nul devoir à accomplir.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To proste - my?la? Mieczy? Wojnicz, ?ykaj?c ?zy, które miesza?y si? z krwi? zwierz?cia w jego w?t?ym ciele - by? m??czyzn? to nauczy? si? ignorowa? to, co sprawia k?opot. Oto ca?a tajemnica.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please
~ Oliver Goldsmith
His best companions, innocence and health;And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
~ Oliver Goldsmith