Quotes About Ignorance

Men like to create unnecessary organizations and give them impressive or mysterious names; this usually ends in increased confusion, and should therefore be ignored.

The less a person knows, the more certain he is that he is right, and ... no weapons yet invented are of any use in a struggle with stupidity.

From the side window smoke could be seen rising from the Westing house, but Sydelle Pulaski did not notice.

The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder. The whole history of mankind and especially the present plight of the world show only too sadly how dangerous and expensive it is to have the world governed by those who do not know.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

How honorable is knowledge, that the one who does not have it, says he does. How dishonorable is ignorance, that the one who has it says he does not.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

An ignorant person will always overdo a thing or neglect it totally.

Debating an ignorant tires me.

There is a lack of understanding on white people's part that it is not just a question of their own individual prejudice or lack of it, but of how racism works in a systematic and structural form to disadvantage ethnic minorities. And there is a taken-for-granted lens and experience of whiteness which makes for ignorance and blindness to the discrimination that ethnic minorities suffer in white-dominated societies.

She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.

We must resign ourselves to the fact that the only way in which we can find the clue to the mystery of the rays, systems, and hierarchies, lies in the study of the law of correspondences or analogy. It is the one thread by which we can find our way through the labyrinth, and the one ray of light that shines through the darkness of the surrounding ignorance.

Humans, in their blindness, think intelligence has one path - theirs.

And people wouldn't look up the details. They never look up the details.

He doesn't know anything," said Klein. "That's his trouble. He's clever, but he doesn't know much. I guess he only began to read books a couple years ago. They excite him too much. He wouldn't read a fairy story. He'd think he was wasting time.

Lutamos muito para ter um ego, mas se nos identificamos com ele, esquecemos o self, negando-o por ignorância ou orgulho até que nosso sofrimento se torne insuportável.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Los quiteños salen a las calles y se acodan para gozar del espectáculo. La vieja está aterrada. Va a las ancas de una mula, amarrada, para que no se escape. Le han vestido con el escapulario de sambenito, le han cortado el pelo a rape, le han echado cenizas sobre el cráneo, le han puesto cadenas en las piernas y en los brazos. La multitud la culpa de todas las calamidades. Le escupen y escarnecen. La vieja no sabe lo que pasa, ni siquiera para qué la llevan a la ciudad de Lima.

No es ninguna vergüenza no saber nada. La vergüenza es no tener ansias de aprender.

The intolerance of ignorance, not wanting to know – that is the last real frontier on earth.