The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you’ve got it. Once you realize you’re ignorant, if you don’t do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.
Book: The Neddiad
What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face.
Movie: Ghost in the Shell
…I simply did not recognize the extent to which the 1960s “youth revolution” had terrified our ruling Elite, or that they would try to prevent future upsurges of radical Utopianism by deliberately “dumbing down” the educational system. What they have produced, the so-called Generation X, must rank as not only the most ignorant but also the must paranoid and depressive kids ever to infest our Republic. I agree with outlaw radio staw Travis Hipp that the paranoia and depression result inevitably from the ignorance. These kids not only don’t know anything; they don’t even want to know. They only realize, vaguely, that somebody has screwed them out of something, but they don’t have enough zest or bile to try to find out who screwed them and what they were screwed out of.
Book: Prometheus Rising
As the sphere of knowledge expands, the surface area of ignorance grows ever larger.
Book: Tripping by Charles Hayes, page 447
As you build the fire bigger, the greater the darkness that you reveal.
Book: Tripping by Charles Hayes, page 447
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you’ve got it. Once you realize you’re ignorant, if you don’t do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.
The deeper one enters into the study of Nature, the further one ventures into and along the by-paths that, like a mystic maze, thread Nature’s realm in every direction, the broader and grander becomes the vista opened up to the view.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Your talk is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Book: “The Third Policeman” by Flann O’Brien
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.