Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
Bryant McGillStichwörter: science knowledge ignorance critical-thinking
Stichwörter: books rich history war hate mistakes ignorance fun history-repeating-itself forgotten poor bombs classism uncaring starving cave atomic
I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.
Andrew LevkoffIsn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: strength ignorance
...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, "You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company; I shall, therefore, beat you soundly with this stick in the presence of them all."
This you then do to him or he to you, mutatis mutandis, ceteris paribus; and that is all I have to say on Ignorance.
Stichwörter: religion ignorance
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Neil deGrasse TysonStichwörter: science knowledge reason ignorance
It was clear to me that it wouldn't matter what I did - they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle - they were insensible, like kittens,predatory little things, distracted by the first bit of string or shiny bauble that rolled across the floor, and nothing I could ever say or do could possibly make any kind of dent in their willful ignorance.
Jeff LindsayStichwörter: children ignorance defeat dexter fickle teaching-insensible
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.
Baruch SpinozaStichwörter: truth thinking knowledge nature wonder miracles ignorance understanding philosopher foolish fools gods authority adoration cause causation heresy mob piety preservation astonishment interpret stare heretical impious the-gods
In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?
Neil PostmanStichwörter: politics knowledge opinions ignorance media television discourse polls nate-silver
My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique.
Lionel SuggsStichwörter: ignorance judging hater
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