Quotes About Ignorance

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

Puede afirmarse, sin caer en el infundio, que esta ilustre manga de atorrantes jamás consiguió entender el sentido de los Carnavales. Manuel Mandeb pensaba que las gentes se ponían contentas en virtud de algún suceso que todos conocían, menos él. Sus amigos padecían un desconcierto de la misma clase.

Salzman percibió la invasión de otro pensamiento usurpador: ¿Es el azar el nombre de nuestra ignorancia o el universo contiene episodios impredecibles?

I knew I would be forever isolated, desolate, useless. Life? To be born for no reason, to suffer constantly, to die ignorant. God? Extant but unreachable. Blind, deaf, and mute for His creatures. Human society? A prison filled with lunatics, thieves, and drunks.

Let me tell you what the problem is, Brik. Even if you knew what you want to know, you would still know nothing. You ask questions, you want to know more, but no matter how much more I tell you, you will never know anything. That's the problem.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Or the poor's distrust of anything proposed by the rich and powerful (a distrust that is always proportionate to the mutual ignorance between those who feel it and those who inspire it, to the number of the poor, and to the inanity of the laws).

If stupid people didn't insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.

He looked right through them, refusing to see them, nursing a little growth of anger the way one caresses the beginnings of a toothache with the tip of the tongue.

But at the time of their call they were exceedingly ignorant, narrow-minded, superstitious, full of Jewish prejudices, misconceptions, and animosities. They had much to unlearn of what was bad, as well as much to learn of what was good, and they were slow both to learn and to unlearn.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

None of the young women who wanted her position knew what her position was.

The masses are asses.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

The fool is happy that he knows no more

By false learning is good sense defaced

Half-learn'd witlings

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.