I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.
From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.
We do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I— what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Stichwörter: truth knowledge ignorance understanding humbleness
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovStichwörter: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.
Ray BradburyStichwörter: knowledge morality ignorance
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo PicassoStichwörter: wisdom innocence knowledge youth ignorance
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
Jane AustenStichwörter: perception education empowerment equality girls reason men women stupidity prejudice ignorance foolishness stereotypes disdain clichés charms desirability folly imbecility inferiority
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Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Eoin ColferStichwörter: humor knowledge confidence ignorance
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.
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: wisdom politics ignorance followers fyodor-dostoevsky hipsters
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
G.K. ChestertonStichwörter: education ignorance indoctrination
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard ShawStichwörter: politics ignorance arrogance politicians
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Napoléon BonaparteStichwörter: stupidity victory ignorance regret
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