Quotes About Ignorance

My strong advice to you is to soak, soak, soak in philosophy and psychology, until you know more of these subjects than ever you need consciously to think. It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight. . . . The man who reads only the Bible does not, as a rule, know it or human life.

Cowardice causes blindness.

These comments have been offered by those who abuse the privilege of being stupid, but I thank them for their interest.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

The rest who does not know?

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind more securely." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." —MARK TWAIN, AMERICAN AUTHOR

I guess ignorance is bliss -- when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.

Honey, if we could cure stupid, I'd be out of a job.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Quem, nada pode fazer, nada compreende. Quem nada compreende, nada vale.

What's Wal*Mart? Is that were they sell wall stuff?

To grow in love and service, you must value ignorance as much as knowledge and failure as much as success.

when we live behind a wall, our inner darkness cannot be penetrated by the light that is in the world. In fact, all we can see "out there" is darkness, not realizing how much of it is of our own making! As a young man, the wall allowed me to cast my own darkness on others while remaining blissfully ignorant of how they saw me.

Somehow if she'd know the worst parts, she couldn't have gone on being a haven for him...Men said they didn't tell their women about France because they didn't want to worry them. but it was more than that. He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to know and be known as deeply as possible. And the two desires were irreconcilable.

All you have to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you will find people who are eager to fill your head with information." WALT DISNEY

She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work. What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

There's something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.

She had no idea who the dagos were. Her racist vocabulary obviously needed work.

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. — Nigerian Proverb

There are some people who don't even know enough to fall in love with the water.