quotations about ignorance
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Is it not wonderful, then, that we should be so sensitive upon the discovery of a fault which must of necessity be common to all, and that in its highest degree?
HILAIRE BELLOC
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"On Ignorance", On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.
GEORGE TAKEI
Facebook post, May 26, 2013
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816
It doesn't matter if your ignorant so long as you can find people to know stuff for you.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
JAMES BEATTIE
The Minstrel
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW
To Jerusalem and Back
Feed ignorance with predigested mental food only, otherwise you will have a case of ignorantia dyspepsia on your hands and for that there is no medicinal cure.
WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS
"On the Impenetrability of Ignorance", Originality and Other Essays
From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.
MATTHEW PRIOR
To the Hon. Charles Montague
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
Ignorance served no useful purpose; it changed no fact, it offered no shelter.
MICHELLE WEST
"Echoes", Assassin Fantastic
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.
GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
"The Dawn", The Wild Swans at Coole
The blind see what they want to see.
DAN BROWN
The Da Vinci Code
The reason why intelligence cannot compete with ignorance in a friendly discussion can be arrived at by analysis. We all know the capacity, the straightforwardness and the general mental honesty of an intelligent man. He is intelligent because he thinks. He goes through a mental process, correlates ideas, adds, subtracts and divides thoughts, striving to arrive at a sane and therefore an intelligent conclusion. On the other hand, the ignorant man doesn't think, because he has never been trained to think. His mentality can't get any further than a baby with its blocks, trying to build a house. His ignorance is impenetrable, in-so-far as immediate mental activity is possible.
WILLIAM HENRY MCMASTERS
"On the Impenetrability of Ignorance", Originality and Other Essays
Any wise enemy is better than an ignorant friend.
ARABIC PROVERB
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT
Table Talk
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
"The Call of Cthulhu"
The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place.
TONY BALLANTYNE
Recursion