Ignorance Quotes

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

When I came to again—parched, pain rampaging through my intestines—I was in my bed. The little bedside lamp illuminated two anxious faces, my sister’s and Mrs. P.’s (the latter looking a shade guilty, I noted, no doubt realizing that it was effectively through her negligence that I had been forced to poison myself) [. . .] “I think he has eaten many kidney beans.” Mrs. P. shuddered. “Many kidney beans not cooked.” “Beans!” I cried again deliriously. “Oh for heaven’s sake,” Bel said. “Charles, listen carefully, did you soak the beans before you cooked them?” “Of course I didn’t soak them,” I said. “What are you talking about?

~ Paul Murray

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.

~ Audre Lorde

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and this world straining against each other without being able to embrace each other. I ask for the rule— of life of that state, and what I am offered neglects its basis,negates one of the terms of the painful opposition, demands of me a resignation. I ask what is involved in the condition I recognize as mine; I know it implies obscurity and ignorance; and I am assured that this ignorance explains everything and that this darkness is mylight.

~ Albert Camus

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

~ Frank Herbert

Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?

~ Ronald Reagan

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

~ Criss Jami

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write. This but partially expresses the fact. They are ignorant of the world about them, of modern economic organization, of the function of government, of individual worth and possibilities,—of nearly all those things which slavery in self-defence had to keep them from learning. Much that the white boy imbibes from his earliest social atmosphere forms the puzzling problems of the black boy’s mature years. America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

~ W.e.b. Du Bois

The seeking face that does not alter when presented with peace and reason, must bask in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.

~ Haruki Murakami

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties...Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

~ Thucydides

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

~ Marcel Proust

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

~ J.b.alves

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists but the possessor of ignorance shall always be ignorant of opportunities

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.

~ A.s. King

Until we find an antidote to our ignorance, our purpose shall always be hindered by ignorance

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

what wisdom can build, ignorance can destroy

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

That's the trouble with the world we live in, Dana. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really going on. Care about the rainforest until they get a couple of kids and enough money for a gas guzzling car, or some fancy hardwood dining furniture. Watch all those wildlife programmes and coo over the furry animals, but still eat meat and poultry that was raised in conditions of unbelievable cruelty. I'm sorry, but we live in a relatively free society. The facts are available, but people choose to ignore them. As far as I'm concerned, any educated person who works for the government or a big oil company is guilty through their own selective ignorance.

~ Robert Muchamore

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

~ Justin Kyle Mcfarlane Beau

If you feel ashamed of ignorance,it's your fault.Try to make yourself acceptable.

~ Arunesh Mani

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.

~ Ruth Ozeki

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One 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.

~ Albert Camus

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused metaphysical anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce toxins that poisoned it. Its long-term survival was more important than short-term knowledge of the truth. If an eye had seen something that the brain knew was dangerous for the rest of the organism, it was better for the brain to put out that eye.

~ Bernard Werber

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

~ Thomas Jefferson

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

~ Ray Bradbury

Deep-rooted beliefs are one of the many consequences of intellect, and also of ignorance; and telling one from the other is sometimes impossible.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There are feet that are swift to mete out defeat to anything different, but in doing so the assailant is already defeated. I say to them that the lack of awareness concerning their premature end is due to their immaturity and ignorance. The awareness defeatists lack, is found in those they hunger to defeat. To them, difference is hostility.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

~ Clarence Darrow

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can't see itself.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted.

~ Blaise Pascal

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

~ Kristen Heitzmann

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions.If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.

~ Anatole France