Quotes about ignorance

Ignorance makes it too easy to jump to conclusions about what we don't understand.

It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance'

Many xpert witnesses at. our trial denied Declarations could be the work of a fabricant, ascended or otherwise, and maintained it was ghosted by Union or a pureblood Abolitionst.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

[...] in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

Was it better to die in the illusion of sunshine and warmth or face death in a cold darkness of reality? Was it better to die in happy ignorance or terrified knowledge? The answer, if you’re a Londoner, is that it’s better not to die at all.

“The scope of your ignorance, Peter,” said Seawoll, “is truly frightening.”

The more he didn’t know, she reasoned, the easier he would be to fool.

Human ignorance has never needed help.

If there ever comes a day when I deliberately embrace ignorance, I’ll have lived one day too long.

I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.

She speaks with the authority of the ignorant.

Innocence is in many ways ignorance.