497 quotes found
“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.”
“I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.”
“Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.”
“Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.”
“Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.”
“Ignorance does not pave the path for life.”
“How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.”
“To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. [] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Su...”
“Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don't really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if I say I don't know something I don'...”
“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.”
“Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.”
“The most ignorant of all people is a person who is self assured in his or her premature decisions.”
“Ignorance is the toughest enemy of humans. It is most disastrous.”
“Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.”
“There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.”
“Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.”
“What's happening outside church walls is happening inside church walls. It is all part of the human experience. Ignorance and lack of education about sex, sexual orientation, gender identities, and...”
“Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. ...”
“Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.”
“Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?”
