Quotes About Ignorance

O poder é bom e a estupidez é inofensiva, em geral. Mas o poder e a estupidez juntos são um perigo.

Fear tends to come from ignorance.

El poder está bien, y la estupidez es, por lo general inofensiva. Pero el poder y la estupidez juntos son peligrosos.

Depois que descobri o que estava me incomodando, a maior parte do meu mal-estar desapareceu. O medo costuma provir da ignorância. Uma vez que eu soube qual era o problema, ele se tornou apenas um problema, nada a temer.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born. My

Ignorance is the only possible happiness this world has to offer

con un gesto apacible, un movimiento de la cabellera, un solo y lento destello de la mirada dominaba el espacio y permanecen tranquilas como en el centro de un ciclón, al parecer ignorantes de la propia fuerza de atracción, que arrastra hacia ellas de modo irresistible los anhelos y las almas tanto de hombre como mujeres.

L'ignorance n'a rien de honteux, la plupart des hommes voient en elle le bonheur. Et, de fait, elle est le seul bonheur possible en ce monde.

In his heartlessness he had ignored nature, and how heartless nature was in return.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little," wrote Mark Twain, "it's that they know so many things that ain't so.")

Nadie puede decir de dónde proviene un libro, y menos que nadie la persona que lo escribe. Los libros nacen de la ignorancia , y si continúan viviendo después de escritos es sólo en la medidad en que no pueden entenderse.

the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the artworks on display,

Nimeni nu poate spune ce anume d? na?tere unei c?rti, ?i cu atât mai pu?in cel care o scrie. C?r?ile se nasc din ignoran?? iar dac? tr?iesc ?i dup? ce au fost scrise, asta se întâmpl? numai ?i numai pentru c? nu pot fi în?elese.

One of the Framers, Thomas Jefferson, said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Your daddy doesn't know his assonance from his elegy! And he calls himself a poet.

That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

And this country, the latent high school homosexual that it is, the mulatto passing for white that it is, the Neanderthal incessantly plucking its unibrow that it is, needs people like him. It needs somebody to throw baseballs at, to fag-bash, to nigger-stomp, to invade, to embargo. Anything that, like baseball, keeps a country that's constantly preening in the mirror from actually looking in the mirror and remembering where the bodies are buried.

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.

The wretched of the Earth, he calls us. People too poor to afford cable and too stupid to know that they aren't missing anything.

Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must inevitably reap; when he attains enlightenment, it is for him to sow what he chooses and reap accordingly. – Geraldine Coster

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

asked by his wife whether he wants to have his bowling shoes laced over or laced under, Archie Bunker answers the question: "What's the difference?" Being a reader of sublime simplicity, his wife replies by patiently explaining the difference between lacing over and lacing under, whatever this may be, but provokes only ire. "What's the difference" did not ask for difference but means instead "I don't give a damn what the difference is.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.