Quotes about ignorance

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“When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.”

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

“Quoting: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.”

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.”

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective.”

“That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.”

“Justice is the only worship.
Love is the only priest.
Ignorance is the only slavery.
Happiness is the only good.
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Wisdom is the science of happiness.”

“Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.”

“You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.”

“Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.”

“Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)”

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”

“The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.”

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“… given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution….”

“[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.”

“Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.”

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”

“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good.”

“The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.”

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”

“Stupid people always ignored good advice”

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”

“Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream”

“Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.”

“If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.”

“You think that's the solution to everything, don't you, Bane? Drinking and dancing and making love… but I tell you this, something is coming, and we'd be fools to ignore it."
"When have I ever claimed not to be a fool?”

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.”

“I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.”

“Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you."
The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.”

“Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

“Witchcraft to the ignorant,…. Simple science to the learned.”

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”

“I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.”

“The thrill of being ignored!”

“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”

“Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.”

“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.”

“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”

“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”

“Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.”

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”

“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”

“… Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?”

“MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you”

“Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”

“Education is the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.”

“They say ignorance is bliss…. they're wrong”

“You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.”

“Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them. Of course, they have to know you are ignoring them, for otherwise they may not even know you exist.”

“With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

“Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto”

“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”

“She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.”

“Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”

“Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.”

“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”

“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”

“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.”

“She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.”

“Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.”

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”

“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

“A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed.”

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”

“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.”

“Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between.”

“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance…”

“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”

“Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.”

“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”

“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.”

“The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.”

“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”

“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day.”

“He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.”

“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”

“The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963”

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.”

“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.”

“Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.”

“There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you.”