Quotes About Ignorance

I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.

Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on their density, much as the illuminated spiritual reality is considered implicit in the soul of each incarnate human, no matter how overlaid with vice and ignorance.

To take part in a severe contrast between intelligence, which presses forward,and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.

It's not that I don't care," said Robin. "It's just that I don't want to know." She knew too much already. This was real life, kicking her in the face, and she wanted nothing to do with it.

Ako s ne?im ?ovjek nije upoznat, mora pitati kako bi nau?io. To je zaista puno bolje nego pretvarati se da znaš više nego što znaš samo zato jer se u svojoj umišljenosti ne želiš prikazati neukim.

Wenn eine Gesellschaft vor ihrer literarischen Kultur keine Achtung mehr hat, wenn die Achtung nicht so beschaffen ist, daß sie es als achtenswert empfindet, über diese Kultur einigermaßen Bescheid zu wissen, wenn sie also das unaufhebbare Nichtbescheidwissen der Mehrheit - ihre Unbildung - nicht mehr als bedauerlichen Mangel empfindet, der nur durch die Bildung einer kulturellen Elite kompensiert werden kann, dann ist nichts mehr zu machen.

You were a child, you didn't mean to hurt my feelings. Children are ignorant. It takes an adult to choose to be cruel.

He has not the faintest idea that I am ugly and we are very happy together.

Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

The Sanskrit word for this circular chain is samsara. Samsaric existence is endless, so long as we live in ignorance.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Ida knew that she was fighting ignorance and superstition every bit as much as she was fighting poor hygiene and disease.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?

Using freedom to excuse foolishness is the highest form of ignorance. Remember, people died for those rights.

It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.

The fact is that the higher you go in an organization, the less you'll know what it's really like. It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.

With great power comes great ignorance.

But maybe the only way to achieve the impossible was to be unaware that was what you were trying to do.

One thing Mauser leaned over the years was that students, almost to a one, viewed the world from the inside of a fishbowl. They had the bigger points covered—genocide in Kamchatka, illegal whale hunting in the Arctic Circle, shit like the. But if you asked about anything relevant to their lives they'd look at you with glazed eyes and go right back to sipping their double-mocha lattes.

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.