When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
...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?
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!
There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.
Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.
True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.
When you start listening to side talks, you begin to behave like a child, and you must kill the child to sustain the man, the man is always overlooking and philosophical.
If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried
you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.
Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.
I died last night. Seventy years too young.
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing - by dint of ignorance and innocence - that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.
What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.
It takes a very long time to become young.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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.
he who will not economize will have to agonize
The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
all appears to change when we change
originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time-the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.
Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.
Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist
The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The hunter's waking thoughts.
Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story
in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often
abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
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.
To know that you do not know is the best.
To think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude.
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)
If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
[...] where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,
Or any searcher know by mortal mind,
Veil after veil will lift-but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.
Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?
Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.
There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk DNA," though a certain amount of hubris was required for anyone to call any part of the genome "junk," given our level of ignorance.
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge.
What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand
We don't know why anything happens or why anything is.
Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.
The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.
You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.
In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.