Quotes About Ignorance

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

Men are naive to their bodies. They don't pay attention to their skin like women do.

When somebody abuses in public, we don't pay attention.

I don't know what hype you're talking about, I don't pay attention to it.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

My experience started in the gay nightlife/drag life. I was just as consumed in ignorance about what is offensive to transpeople because at that time I hadn't found myself. I was living as a drag performer only.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Beware of the person of one book.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.

Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

statistical thinking is merely an artifact of human ignorance. we need to use statistics nature does not.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.