Quotes About Ignorance

MAY 8 IN THE TIBETAN medical system disorders of the flesh are related to ignorance, disorders of the bones to anger, and disorders of the blood to attachment.

Only the man that knows to little, knows too much." Nero Wolfe

Gang society required absolute ignorance, a violent nature, and ruthlessness. I was known to have all of these qualities.

There is nothing worse than speeches about someone you don't know, made by someone you don't know.

What nonsense! What arrogance! What blind, ignorant balderdash!

people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

have found by experience that an ignorant man who has been an unprofitable hearer has received more knowledge and remorse of conscience in half an hour's close discourse than he did in ten years of public preaching. I know that the public preaching of the gospel is the most excellent means of conversion because we speak to many at once, but it is usually far more effectual to preach it privately to an individual sinner.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.

That society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific truths, creates races, and endows them with pseudo-permanent characteristics is of great interest to critical race theory.

People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

Alternativa" é a palavra da moda para fazer importante o que não tem nenhum significado. Ela serve para enfeitar um misto de misticismo medieval, bobagem herbalista, lixo dietético, brinquedos elétricos, superstição, sugestão, ignorância e pura fraude.

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier

The preacher gave a fine sermon. He used some big English words I had never heard before because our meetings were taken by the grown-ups in our language. But I remember the tunes of some of them and asked my father afterwards. I suppose I must have got the tunes wrong because although my father tried and said them over again, we never found out what they were and I am still in ignorance to this day.

He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic.

They share a lot, astronomy and childhood. Both are voyages across huge distances. Both search for facts beyond their grasp. Both theorize wildly and let possibilities multiply without limits. Both are humbled every few weeks. Both operate out of ignorance. Both are mystified by time. Both are forever starting out.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement. Our thoughts are shaped primarily by legacy hardware that evolved to assume that everyone else must be right . But even when the fog is pointed out, we're no better at navigating through it .

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to notice.

We're sorry. We didn't know how hard it is for you to grow back.

The psyche's job is to keep us blissfully ignorant of who we are, what we think, and how we'll behave in any situation. We're all operating in a dense fog of mutual reinforcement. Our thoughts are shaped primarily by legacy hardware that evolved to assume that everyone else must be right. But even when the fog is pointed out, we're no better at navigating through it.

You can't see what you don't understand. But what you think you already understand, you'll fail to look at.