Quotes About Ignorance

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.

Ah, Fist, it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.

How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to answer others, it is put for the light of the world.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.

Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!

The speculators deadly enemies are: Ignorance, greed, fear and hope. All the statute books in the world and all the rules of all the Exchanges on earth cannot eliminate these from the human animal.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I'm ignoring behind me. Instead, it's most certain to drop it on top of me.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.