Before I started writing, I’d never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I’m taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he’d taken the guitar introduction to ‘Johnny B. Goode’ from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different – they might be, too.
Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.
Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of ‘Noah.’ We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters – from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer’s telephone number – a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.
There is a profound hypocrisy – and deep historical ignorance – when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
You know when you’re young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump – a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses, she or he would likely be accused of extreme contrivance and implausibility.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn’t want anything to do with them. I said, ‘Well, why do I need them? I write letters.’ Which I still do.
The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
I don’t think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it’s the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That’s what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn’t think that this is about making money, then they’re crazy.
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking.
Absolutely no one should be arguing for a system aimed at increasing ignorance.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.
We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power – educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
We should all learn from our experiences, but I don’t think hatred is the best way to deal with ignorance.
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
