Quotes About Ignorance

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

The past was characterized not by ignorance but by false opinions. Men always had opinions about everything, but those opinions were without ground and indemonstrable. Yet they governed the nations of men and were authoritative. Thus the problem of Enlightenment is not merely discovery of the truth but the conflict between the truth and the beliefs of men.

how ignorant he was; how childlike … He was simply beyond analysis; so simple

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.

People believe what they want to believe. They see no evil because they don't want to. But evil is out there.

Science is the catalyst of truth, a torch that illuminates the darkest corners of ignorance, transforming mysteries into knowledge.

Una carovana non simbolizza né rappresenta nulla. Il nostro errore consiste nel pensare che vada da qualche parte o provenga da qualche altra. Il significato della carovana si cifra nella sua stessa deriva. Lo sanno gli animali che la compongono, lo ignorano i carovanieri. Sarà sempre così.

Ultimately, overcoming personal censorship is about gaining independence--independence from ignorance!~ Adesiji Rabiu

I see that these people know nothing about war.

Damen is gorgeous. I know this without looking up. I just focus on my book as he makes his way toward me since I know way too much about my classmates already. So as far as I'm concerned, an extra moment of ignorance really is bliss. But according to the innermost thoughts of Stacia Miller sitting just two rows before me - Damen Auguste is totally smoking hot. Her best friend, Honor, completely agrees. So does Honor's boyfriend, Craig, but that's a whole other story

They thought he didn't know. He'd trained himself to ignore it. They thought he didn't care. He'd forced himself not to.

La cosmetica, povero ignorante, è la scienza dell'ordine universale, la morale suprema che determina il mondo.

L'onore consiste il più delle volte nell'essere idioti

Il s'y connaissait aussi peu qu'elle et aimait perdre son ignorance au meme rythme.C'etait une initiation qu'ils vivaient ensemble et dont il se reservait cependant la male initiative.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Politicians will be politicians, they will have a weakness at times for not seeing beyond their nose.

The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore him. Acknowledging the victims of COVID-19 would be to associate himself with their weakness, a trait his father taught him to despise.

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordlings enjoy.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

The good thing about getting wealthy is we don't need to understand a lot of things!