Quotes About Ignorance

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.

Lyons's views on America were generally in keeping with those of the Foreign Office: he was well disposed to its people, but he thought that democracy made the government weak and handed too much power to the violent and ignorant elements of society.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Man has survived hitherto Because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either chnage them or perish. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

But I don't know these Muslim people. They seem ... what if she brings a bomb inside the house? What if she blows up my house like all those suicide bombers in Israel?" he demanded.

We protected America from what happened, like a man takes care of his wife. The man doesn't mind when she closes her eyes at the scary part of the ride, of the movie. He loves her for that sweet, willful ignorance. She gives him something to protect, a nice world in which bad things don't happen. It's a pleasure, and a relief, to keep that ignorance intact, even as it comes between them.

How wise people thought themselves when they often knew nothing about what they were talking!

don't worry because GAFAM did not know the type of toilet paper you are using

La individualidad es motivada y perpetuada por el deseo, y la causa de todo deseo es la ignorancia (avidy?).

There are forces, Lucius, infinitely more powerful than reason and science." " What are they?" asked Cotta. "Ignorance and folly," replied Aristaeus.

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions. If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.

C'est dans l'absolue ignorance de notre raison d'être qu'est la racine de notre tristesse et de nos dégoûts.

But my foreknowledge must not encroach upon their free will. "In order not to impair human liberty, I will be ignorant of what I know, I will thicken upon my eyes the veils I have pierced, and in my blind clearsightedness I will let myself be surprised by what I have foreseen.

Cercando di istruirlo, non farà altro che umiliarlo e affaticarlo. Non tenti d'illuminare la sua ignoranza, se non vuole che l'accusi d'insultare le sue convinzioni.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

it calls upon the actor to be before expressing himself. This requirement does not necessarily imply doing away with the professional actor but it normally tends to substitute the man in the street, chosen uniquely for his general comportment, his ignorance of theatrical technique being less a positively required condition

People judge what they do not understand

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.