“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”

Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 5, “Falling into History” (p. 375)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update July 1, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people." by Kim Stanley Robinson?

Kim Stanley Robinson98

American science fiction writer 1952

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

“Apathetic Ignorance

When someone tells you something, you know is false and thus displays their ignorance; and you’re not in the frame of mind or mood to challenge them; so, you just say; really.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

2011

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008) British writer

Poems (1964), Preface.

“(…) creation itself is rooted in ignorance; matter itself is ignorance. Not to know, and not to know that one does not know, is the cause of endless suffering.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

Suffering
Source: I am That, P.116.

“Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 865
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“Ignore the normal people, who knows what they’re thinking.”

Josh Duffy (1978) Subject of the documentary THE MAYOR

Film Quotes

“I think, the people around home are very supportive to us and those are the people who really matter to us, our close friends and close family and I think if they feel you are doing the right thing you can only be true to yourself and you sort of have to ignore a lot of what's said, obviously take it on board, but you have to be yourself really and that's how I have stuck by it really.”

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (1982) Wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge

First post-engagement interview (2010)

“The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.”

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–1989) English philosopher

"The Concept of Freedom".
The Meaning of Life and Other Essays (1990)

“Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“A nation which is ignorant of its history cannot properly make choices about its future.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

St Andrew's Day (November 30, 2007)

“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Kim Stanley Robinson98

Related quotes

Related topics