Quotes About Ignorance

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.

Le mépris de la science lui venait ; il voulait rester ignorant, afin de garder l'humilité de sa foi.

It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

In that manner Hareton, who should now be the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father's inveterate enemy; and lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages: quite unable to right himself, because of his friendlessness, and his ignorance that he has been wronged.

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

she has thrown herself away upon that boor from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed!

He little imagined how

You are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marrying.

But the world is sleeping in ignorance and error, sir, and we must be crowing cocks, and singing larks, and a rising sun to awake her; or else we'll pull society up to the roots, and plant it in a different place. We'll build Alms-houses, and transcendental State prisons, and scaffolds -- we will blow out the sun, and the moon, and encourage invention. Alpha shall kiss Omega--we will ride up the hill of glory -- Hallelujah, all hail!

I guess she's been like this since her arrival here, maybe even our whole lives, but sometimes when you know someone well, you don't see them as they really are. So I honestly think I've managed to ignore this fundamental part of her personality, perhaps not wanting to see my closest friend in this light.

Gonna see if Meg's here," Eddi whispered. "Go back to sleep." "I doubt if I can. But if you prefer it, I can lie here and be still." "Probably a good idea." Eddi grinned and kissed his nose. "She thinks you're full of nonsense." "She's lamentably ignorant of my better qualities." "You mean she hasn't seen you with your clothes off?" Eddi thought he blushed.

How illimitable is the gullibility of mankind, especially, it must be said, when combined with provincial ignorance. But Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur; that is to say, "If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled." Thus quoth Petronius, in the days of Our Lord, an aphorism just as pertinent to our own time.

These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.

Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that its power of destruction is the very thing Anarchism is combating? Nor is he aware that Anarchism, whose roots, as it were, are part of nature's forces, destroys, not healthful tissue, but parasitic growths that feed on the life's essence of society. It is merely clearing the soil from weeds and sagebrush, that it may eventually bear healthy fruit.

I discovered that those who want their property to be respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradise and hell, and in keeping the people in ignorance

Puritanism in this the twentieth century is as much the enemy of freedom and beauty as it was when it landed on Plymouth Rock. It repudiates, as something vile and sinful, our deepest feelings; but being absolutely ignorant as to the real functions of human emotions, Puritanism is itself the creator of the most unspeakable vices.

How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance

A nadie se le obliga a morir más imbécil que cuando nació.

You don't know what you're talking about,' said George, scornfully. 'Come on, you others!

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trousers.