Quotes About Ignorance

Why did people always think you did not know as much as they? The world was full of fools!

Human's life is a struggle between ignorance and illumination. Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in

What intensifies fear and desire is ignorance.

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.

Oh, God, she loathed them all! Mindless, stupid men. Playing with the lives of other men, knowing so little, thinking they knew so much.

Familiarity can blind you

People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists.

We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.

What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was a brass-bound Idealist in those days. If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

If the human race didn't remember anything it would be perfectly happy.

What you don't know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist. I was

These two races hunted each other, lived and died for each other, and, through ignorance or guile, ignored any relationship between each other. The relationship was utterly symbiotic, but completely unacknowledged by either race. In fact, each race pretended that it alone was a Civilized Intelligence, and that the other was bestial, contemptible, and of no account. And it now occured to both of themthat they were, in equal measure, participants in the general concept of Humanity.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself by finding an expert in the field or a book on the subject.

What I know makes me money. What I don't know loses me money. Every time I have been arrogant, I have lost money. Because when I'm arrogant, I truly believe that what I don't know is not important.

It's self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keep people trapped.

If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied.

Prices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignorance. If schools taught people about money, there would be more money and lower prices. But schools focus only on teaching people to work for money, not how to harness money's power.

intelligence combined with arrogance equals ignorance.

she was saying, "Options are risky." To me, not protecting your assets is risky. To me, being financially ignorant is risky. Knowing how to use options to protect your paper assets is easy and not that hard to

Many people use arrogance to hide their own ignorance.

When you know you are ignorant in a subject, start educating yourself.

It is what you know that is your greatest wealth. It is what you do not know that is your greatest risk.

In an educated society with a well-run government, prices should actually come down. Of course, that is often only true in theory. Prices go up because of greed and fear caused by ignorance. If schools taught people about money, there would be more money and lower prices. But schools only focus on teaching people how to work for money, not how to harness money's power.