Quotes About Ignorance

Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.

Ignorance is the enemy not just of our democratic system but also of our moral integrity as a nation, as the land of the free and home of the brave.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; A wise enemy is worth more.

Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un ignorant ami; Mieux vaudrait un sage ennemi.

Lai??ez dire les ?ots, le ?avoir a ?on prix.

The cosmic universe owed its development to the ignorance of the highest God, to anxiety, terror, and forgetfulness...

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Nu, nu eram niste ignoran?i. Dar eram mor?i. Timpul ne-o luase înainte.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée, Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer, Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out.

exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.

regimes that self-destruct through collective blindness.

It's awful. Why did nobody see it coming?

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

When we forget, or wilfully choose to ignore, the intractability of human behaviour, the complexity of human institutions, and the probability of unanticipated consequences, we do so at great risk, and often immense human cost.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)