Ignorance Quotes - Page 11

I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound.

Tim Kreider

...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Alastair Reynolds

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions.

Michael Pollan

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.

Suzy Kassem

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

George Eliot

Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!

Toba Beta

Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.

Toba Beta

What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?

Toba Beta

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Joanna Russ

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

Tom Robbins

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

B.F. Skinner

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly.

Philippa Gregory

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Thomas Fuller

On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Albert Camus

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

Warren Buffett

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Thomas Jefferson

Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stored in memory. No one has ever tried to calculate this ratio, and in fact there exists no technique for doing so; yet without much risk of error I could assume that the memory retains no more than a millionth, a hundred-millionth, in short an utterly infinitesimal bit of the lived life. That fact too is part of the essence of man. If someone could retain in his memory everything he had experienced, if he could at any time call up any fragment of his past, he would be nothing like human beings: neither his loves nor his friendships nor his angers nor his capacity to forgive or avenge would resemble ours.We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much unless a more basic critique precedes it: a critique of human memory as such. For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.

Milan Kundera

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...

Neil Gaiman

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.

Alexei Maxim Russell

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Booker T. Washington

You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!

George Carlin

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Mercedes Lackey

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Michael Lewis

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

A.R. Bernard

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

Aldo Leopold

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

Lewis Thomas

Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed .

From the film Kill Your Darlings

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Abba Eban

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Steve Alten

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

Jack Whyte

We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.

Caitlyn Paige

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

Victor Cousin

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

Beware the man of a single book.

Thomas Aquinas

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

Kofi Annan

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

Napoléon Bonaparte

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

Oscar Wilde

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Terry Pratchett

I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

David Sedaris

You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Ray Bradbury

Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

Douglas Adams

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Erich Fromm

Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.

Bill Watterson

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

Lisa Shearin

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

Jay M. Bylsma

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Noam Chomsky

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Jasper Fforde

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Gore Vidal

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Eoin Colfer

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

G.K. Chesterton

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make

Loknath

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