Ignorance

““It’s the writer’s job to tell society what it pretends it doesn’t know.””

“South Africa was a strange place. Everyone was totally oblivious to the need to express the plight of the black people.”

“Yang salah adalah dia tahu atau nggak ya dia ngerjain apa. Kebanyakan mereka nggak tahu.”

“I have never heard such ignorance.”

“هیچ صحبتی با من نشده است و اصلاً اطلاعی ندارم.”

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“Estamos destituidos de educación. Sería adulación, vil lisonja, llamar a los quiteños ilustrados, sabios, ricos y felices. No lo sois: vivimos en la más grosera ignorancia y la miseria más deplorable.”

““The bastards, they do know and not only do they know, they don’t see anything wrong with it.””

“No-one fully understood the risks which were being taken.”

“We are lagging behind in the knowledge of our own history.”

“Every step and every movement of the multitude... are made with equal blindness to the future.”

“You may be right. But you know nothing about football and I’ve seen Pele play.”

“it is ignorant . . . to say that kami are humans.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Literature begins with that “why,” even if we were to answer that question over and over with an ordinary “I don’t know.””

“He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.”

“لغتنا للأسف لا تزال بدوية تلتزم الخيام، وتقنع بالعيش في الوبر، وتحلم بالغيبيات.”