Quotes About Ignorance

Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.

It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

it is always easy, as well as agreeable, for the the inferior ranks of mankind to claim a merit from the contempt of that pomp and pleasure, which fortune has placed beyond their reach. The virtue of the primitive Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded by poverty and ignorance.

She did not know what people of other nations ate, and did not care. For Italian food was the best.

And he would have been most surprised if anyone had told him he was prejudiced, it being the nature of a prejudice that those who possess it have no idea that it is prejudice at all.

He walked quite contentedly, therefore, unaware that he was an undesirable.

propio del prejuicio es que aquel que lo tiene no es consciente de ello en absoluto.

I don't want you to marry an ignorant man; and believe me, a happy marriage is a sharing of minds as well as of other things.

We turn ignorance into an inner landscape and pretend that this allegorical enterprise, which might be harmless or even charming, if it weren't so expensive and influential, amounts to a science.

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

And, when some such suffering beast is seen, on his way to solitude, we humans prove our humanity by raising the idiotic bellow of "Mad dog!" and by chasing and torturing the victim. All this, despite proof that not one sick dog in a thousand, thus assailed, has any disease which is even remotely akin to rabies.

Deene had a refreshing ignorance concerning collies; and indeed of nineteen dog-breeds out of twenty. But he had an equally refreshing faith in himself to give wise decisions on any and all canine matters. So, obligingly, he consented to judge collies at Greenwold in addition to his beloved and ultra-tiny Chihuahuas. A similar thing has been done too often to call for comment.

Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.

The victories of the early years of the war can literally be attributed to Hitler's ignorance of the rules of the game and his layman's delight in decision making. Since the opposing side was trained to apply rules which Hitler's self-taught, autocratic mind did not know and did not use, he achieved surprises.

más mata un exceso de fe que una buena espada, porque para esgrimir la espada hace falta valor y experiencia, mientras la fe ciega puede ser cosa de cobardes e ignorantes