His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
Terry PratchettMots clés ignorance
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. BoorstinMots clés knowledge ignorance misattributed-stephen-hawking
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MolièreMots clés intelligence education ignorance foolishness fools
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
Isaac NewtonMots clés wisdom knowledge human-nature ignorance
Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stored in memory. No one has ever tried to calculate this ratio, and in fact there exists no technique for doing so; yet without much risk of error I could assume that the memory retains no more than a millionth, a hundred-millionth, in short an utterly infinitesimal bit of the lived life. That fact too is part of the essence of man. If someone could retain in his memory everything he had experienced, if he could at any time call up any fragment of his past, he would be nothing like human beings: neither his loves nor his friendships nor his angers nor his capacity to forgive or avenge would resemble ours.
We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much unless a more basic critique precedes it: a critique of human memory as such. For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.
Mots clés ignorance
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.
Graham GreeneMots clés happiness evil ignorance egotism
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark TwainMots clés humor ignorance arrogance
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If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Victor CousinMots clés ignorance
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence DarrowMots clés knowledge ignorance agnosticism pretense compliment scopes-trial
Beware the man of a single book.
Thomas AquinasMots clés books-reading ignorance illiteracy limitation
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