Cultivated Ignorance Quotes

#1. Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

Greg Bear

#2. The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

Crystal Eastman

#3. The truth, indeed, is out - but the ears to hear it and the minds to learn from it seem to have been atrophied by a cultivated ignorance and a nearly total loss of critical insight.

Murray Bookchin

#4. The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Amory Lovins

#5. At the very point that I've taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I've cultivated quite a cemetery.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#6. Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

Emeril Lagasse

#7. If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#8. It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

Daniel Woodrell

#9. I've heard stories about movies that are really maybe difficult and really dramatic and good, but they are being sold as romantic comedies. All it's going to do is just ... that's hurting the work, because that just makes it impossible for anyone to see it correctly.

Shane Carruth

#10. Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#11. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#12. Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

Josh Tickell

#13. Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.

Janet Gurtler

#14. Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist that boasts about not having read any poem.

Carlo Rovelli

#15. He smiles and kisses my hand. I like it when you're sassy.

Kristen Proby