Quotes about ignorance
ignorance stupidity badges
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. Oliver Goldsmith
ignorance dark thinking
I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable. Margaret Atwood
ignorance poetry dignity
A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately.
ignorance handmaids-tale handmaids
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
ignorance men perplexed
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. Marcus Tullius Cicero
ignorance astonishment causes
In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.
ignorance matter ashamed
Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.
ignorance evil approach
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
ignorance men gains
No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.
ignorance responsibility views
Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people. Arlo Guthrie
ignorance home privacy
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance. Bruce Sterling
ignorance knowing transformed
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
ignorance men evil
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. Mary Daly
ignorance three degrees
There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore. Pietro Mascagni
ignorance thinking people
Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'
ignorance alchemist world
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does. Paulo Coelho
ignorance investing buying
The worst thing you can do is invest in companies you know nothing about. Unfortunately, buying stocks on ignorance is still a popular American pastime. Peter Lynch
ignorance mountain safe
Our ignorance allowed us to live, as you are in the mountains, and your rope is frayed and about to break, but you don't know it and feel safe. Primo Levi
ignorance wildlife world
Wildlife of the world is disappearing... simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect Prince Philip
ignorance knowledge fate
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance. Pearl S. Buck
ignorance progress disability
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. Terry Pratchett
ignorance historical progress
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. Terence McKenna
ignorance knowledge men
It is a mischievous notion that we are come late into nature; that the world was finished a long time ago. As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt to themselves to it as they may; but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament flows before him and takes his signet and form. Ralph Waldo Emerson
ignorance home political
Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them. Shirley Chisholm
ignorance self boundaries
The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance Seth
ignorance medicine doctors
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. Lewis Thomas
ignorance knowledge reality
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance...
ignorance science achievement
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it is likely that the twentieth century will be looked back at as the time when science provided the first close glimpse of the profundity of human ignorance. We have not reached solutions; we have only begun to discover how to ask questions.
ignorance discovery accomplishment
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
ignorance science ignorant
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of twentieth-century science to the human intellect.
ignorance technology simple
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. Neil Postman
ignorance world burden
Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden... Marcus Garvey
ignorance intelligent world
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.