"ignorance"タグの名言

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

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.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

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.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

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.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

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.

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.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

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)

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.