Ignorance Quotes - Page 12

• La diferencia entre la estupidez y la genialidad es que la genialidad tiene sus límites.

  Albert Einstein

  Amor, Divertido, Vida

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• El gran obstáculo para descubrir la forma de la Tierra, los continentes y los océanos no era la ignorancia, sino la ilusión del conocimiento.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Ocean, Knowledge, Atheism

  "The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Knowledge Trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1983.

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• No es bueno intentar impedir que el conocimiento avance. La ignorancia nunca es mejor que el conocimiento.

  Enrico Fermi

  Positive, Science, Trying

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• El que sabe no habla. El que habla no sabe.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

  Tao-te Ching ch. 56 (translation by Wing-Tsit Chan)

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• . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Powerful, Confused, Heart

  Joyce Carol Oates (2014). “Rape: A Love Story”, p.89, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• La naturaleza de toda persona es equivocarse, pero sólo el necio persevera en el error.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Nature, Mistake, Philosophical

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• La ignorancia de la ley no excusa a nadie.

  John Selden

  Men, Law, Excuse

  Table-Talk "Law" (1689) See Proverbs 153

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• La humanidad tiene una gran aversión al trabajo intelectual; pero aun suponiendo que el conocimiento fuera fácilmente alcanzable, más gente se contentaría con ser ignorante que la que se tomaría siquiera un poco de trabajo para adquirirlo.

  Samuel Johnson

  Supposing That, People, Intellectual

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.460

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• Tememos las cosas en proporción a nuestra ignorancia de ellas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Life, Fear, Proportion

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• Los caracteres más verdaderos de la ignorancia son la vanidad, el orgullo y la arrogancia.

  Samuel Butler

  Character, Pride, Vanity

  Samuel Butler (1827). “The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose”, p.225

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• Ignorance is not something that lends itself to a meaningful discussion.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Meaningful, Discussion

  "Abdul-Jabbar Admires Athletes Who Make An Activist Statement". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, kuow.org. September 2, 2016.

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• Thy ignorance in unrevealed mysteries is the mother of a saving faith, and thy understanding in revealed truths is the mother of a sacred knowledge; understand not therefore that thou mayest believe, but believe that thou mayest understand; understanding is the wages of a lively faith and faith is the reward of an humble ignorance.

  Francis Quarles

  Mother, Believe, Humble

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.31

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• What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

  Bobby Murcer

  Wish, Hell

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• Qué ignorancia hay en las mentes humanas.

  Ovid

  Mind, Humans, Human Mind

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• Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

  Charles Sumner

  Progress, Vices, Too Much

  Charles Sumner (1849). “The Law of Human Progress: An Oration Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, Schenectady. July 25th, 1848”, p.26

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• La ignorancia es mera privación por la que nada puede producirse: es una vacuidad en la que el alma permanece inmóvil y tórpida por falta de atracción: y, sin saber por qué, siempre nos alegramos cuando aprendemos, y nos entristecemos cuando olvidamos.

  Samuel Johnson

  Grieving, Knowing, Soul

  Samuel Johnson (2012). “Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Con respecto a todos los actos de iniciativa hay una verdad elemental, cuya ignorancia mata innumerables ideas y planes espléndidos: que en el momento en que uno se compromete definitivamente, entonces la providencia también se mueve.

  Steven Pressfield

  Moving, Commitment, Ideas

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• It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

  Josh Billings

  Attitude, Believe, Knowledge

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.286

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• Aprender poco es peligroso, pero no aprender nada es fatal.

  Roger Bacon

  Littles, Dangerous, Stupidity And Ignorance

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• 

  Prefiero tener una mente abierta por el asombro que una cerrada por la creencia.

  Gerry Spence

  Life, Faith, Religious

  "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

  Sivananda

  Self, Temptation, Deception

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

  Charles Dickens

  Attitude, Littles, Patronage

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.20

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• People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Thinking, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Thinking, Evil

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Amanda Duberman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

  Neil Peart

  Emotional, Hands, Judging

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