Orson Scott Card Quotes on Ignorance
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These other kids didn't know love when they saw it.
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Coincidence is just the word we use when we have not yet discovered the cause. It's an illusion of the human mind, a way of saying, 'I don't know why this happened this was, and I have no intention of finding out.'
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In their ignorance, they were happy
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It seems that the more I learn, the less I know. While the more ignorant remain absolutely certain of their convictions
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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I don't know you You don't know anything
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it
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Unfree as the world was. They didn't really know it, and they were at peace. Who was I to think that this peace was worse than war?
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I know absolutely nothing about anything
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(Regarding humans.) They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo-knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts.