Quotes about Ignorance
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw
The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
- George Bernard Shaw
You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?
- George Bernard Shaw
The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.
- George Eliot
They are always wanting reasons, yet they are too ignorant to understand the merits of any question, and usually fall back on their moral sense to settle things after their own taste. Evidently
- George Eliot
Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke
- George Eliot
he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
- George Eliot
A man's mind—what there is of it—has always the advantage of being masculine,—as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,—and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
- George Eliot
In young, childish, ignorant souls there is constantly this blind trust in some unshapen chance: it is as hard to a boy or girl to believe that a great wretchedness will actually befall them as to believe that they will die.
- George Eliot
Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.
- George Eliot