Quotes About Ignorance

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy.

T]he ignorant soul is unaware even of that in which another is successful, but knowledge bears additional witness to that which is well done.

Il conformismo, infine, che in nome della Civiltà (sic) consente agli ignoranti in malafede di alterare, falsare, sfruttare a proprio uso e consumo il significato del vocabolo «razzismo». Non ne conoscono neanche l'etimologia, i cialtroni. Non capiscono neanche che la parola «razzismo» deriva dalla parola «razza». Non sanno neanche che questa si riferisce a caratteristiche somatiche, affinità etniche, non a credi religiosi.

Elementarze to wst?p do lektury ksi??ek. Ksi??ki s? zagro?eniem dla cnoty. A cnota jest tym wi?ksza im wi?ksza jest niewiedza.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

We live in an age in which the overwhelming majority of people appear to be comfortable with their myopia.

It seems that when people are in a state of euphoria, they don't always notice the suffering of others.

O quizá lo que llamamos el Mal sea, en su origen, la Estupidez.

Even if one is not "qualified to be loved," one is eternally "qualified to love." To seek only the joy of being adored is to surrender to savagery and ignorance.

I'm the fool who doesn't know the limits of stupidity.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

I look upward ignorantly but reverently at the white host of heaven. Even the astronomer who peers through the magic glasses must go in peril of losing his mysterious awe in a tangle of mathematical calculations.

I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.

Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move. Peter did not wait for God. He predicted in his own mind where the test would come, and it came where he did not expect it. "I will lay down my life for Your sake." Peter's statement was honest but ignorant.