Quotes About Ignorance

Carefully studying the Bible will reveal to us our own ignorance of these things. It will challenge us to reject a superficial understanding of Christianity and impress on us that it is imperative not to simply be religious or moral, but also to master the Bible intellectually, integrate its principles into our lives morally, and put into action what we have learned practically.

Truth be told, these fuckers don't know their elbows from their assholes.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

I know that bein a idiot an all, I ain't sposed to have no philosophy of my own, but maybe it's just because nobody never took the time to talk to me bout it.

No one is exploited economically as thoroughly as you and I, because in most countries where people are exploited they know it. You and I are in this country being exploited and sometimes we don't know it.

No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.

The man who doesn't know his own ability is ignorant of himself.

Allí donde se queman los libros, se acaba quemando también persona

The continually moving mind is philosophically symbolized by the avatar Fudo Myo-o, the Wisdom King, often depicted holding a sword in one hand for cutting through ignorance, and a rope in the other for tying up passions.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

The poet was right: there was inevitably a share for the Devil in every religion that God offered man; a tiny share, but largely sufficient to falsify the Message and leave the unwary astray down the path of evil and barbarism. That Devil's share is ignorance.

Only idiots think they know everything I admit that I know nothing just so I am not an idiot

It is ignorance of these subjects on the part of ministers and workers that has brought our evangelical theology to such a sorry plight.

From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: "You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you— I know FUCK ALL!

If you choose to ignore these factors, good luck to you. A blind pig can sometimes find truffles, but it helps to know that they are found in oak forests.

My issue isn't with guns . . . my issue is with dunces who happen to have guns.

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last night, I would ask you who won.

But the Arabs and the Africans and the Hispanics—what had they contributed in the past five hundred years other than terrorism, bad music and crack cocaine?

no man is more dangerous than an ignorant one with zeal.

The most ubiquitous form on the mainland is crystal, which is often manufactured with such ingredients as decongestants and brake cleaner in what the DEA has called "Beavis and Butt-head" labs in homes and garages. Mobile, or "box," labs in campers and vans, and labs in motels, have been discovered in every state. In 2006, Bill Maher quipped, "If Americans get any dumber about science, they won't even be able to make their own crystal meth.

Playing well requires study—period. There are more and less sophisticated ways to play the game, and those unwilling to face up to the reality of chess knowledge will be consigned forever to be ineffective, ignorant underachievers. (Understanding this hard truth didn't amount to acting on it, but it was at least a good first step.)

Ignorance of fact is not evidence for fiction.

Who is the real God in the Garden of Eden? Is it the ignorant "God" who tries to keep humanity away from knowledge – who forbids Adam and Eve from accessing knowledge – or is it the Serpent who leads Adam and Eve to knowledge and transforms them through the gift of consciousness, and, finally, superconsciousness? The False God is always an enemy of knowledge, and the True God always a promoter of knowledge.