Quotes About Ignorance

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.

People, she believed, were for the large part leaping dumbasses.

Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse :)

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

You can't censor stupidity.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

knew nor cared what a hearing dog was,

People--stupid when they lived; potentially stupid when they died.

What gets us into trouble is not what don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

It seems to me that he died from a combination of two of the oldest and most insidious killers of all: ignorance and avarice.

In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.

pluralistic ignorance "in which each person decides that since nobody is concerned, nothing is wrong. Meanwhile, the danger may be mounting to the point where a single individual, uninfluenced by the seeming calm of others, would react.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.

Shooting. Put oneself into a state of intense ignorance and curiosity, and yet see things in advance.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

For ignorance is the mother of devotion, as all the world knows, and these times can amply witness.

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

The portion of the "Letter to the Congress" kept secret at the time of writing remained unopened during the first few months after Lenin died. It was probably fortunate for Stalin's emotional equilibrium in those tense months that he continued in ignorance of the fact that Lenin had intended to unseat him from the post of general secretary. The blow was hard enough to sustain when it came.

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs.