Quotes About Ignorance

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

Things do not give unhappiness, ignorance (of one's real Self) does.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Don't know much about history Don't know much biology.

The major force in world history is sheer dumbness.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

We don't know anything about Scottish history. All we know is that an American guy painted his face blue and somehow they won.

History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.