2007-07-23 18:30:29 · 36 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Thanks for the good answers.
2007-07-24 14:29:13 · update #1
Aloha Sailcat,
Great question. I tend to agree with Will Rogers: "everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects." I also side with Galileo who said: "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 5 scene 1
The beginning of wisdom lies in knowing what one does not know.
— Anonymous
2007-07-23 23:22:15 · answer #1 · answered by HawaiianBrian 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
For the vast amount of knowable things that humanity has yet to reach or even question, YES, I am immensely ignorant along with the rest of my species.
Within the realm of scientific exploration there are things that we (scientists) know and we are assured that we do, in fact through scientific method and empirical evidence, know these things. There are also things that we know but do not have such proofs to aid our confidence in them. Also, there are things that we don’t know and we know that we do not possess these answers, as yet. And finally, there are things that we do not know and we do not know that we do not know them. Now, if we are to move from the area of unknown things towards the area of more and better understood facts, by what process do you suggest that we attempt this? Without the evidence of our senses and the tools of scientific method and empirical evidence how shall we ever progress in knowledge? Still, you may feel that science does not offer sufficient answers to the philosophy of creation or who we are and how we got here. It doesn’t, and neither does it claim to. A claim of having all of the answers is a function of dogma, not theory. The pretense that science asserts to having all of the answers is a false statement. But, neither do other types of misticism or philosophy offer all of the answers. So, without science how are we to answer these questions? Perhaps you think that scientific flaws lead us away from the truth. But, even if so the inherent self-correcting measures of the scientific method will lead us back to the truth eventually. The ultimate scientific question is, "Does or doesn’t it work ?". If a theory does not work it will not be able to maintain itself in the scientific system for long. So, if you do not approve of the answers supplied by scientists using the scientific method, then tell me your suggestion of a better way of knowing. 'Kause I'm so ignorant. ; )
2007-07-23 18:47:45 · answer #2 · answered by mindoversplatter 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There is an ancient Tamil saying according to which 'what one knows is measured by what can be held in one's hand, and what one does not know is as large as the Universe itself'
So we all are ignorant in some ways
2007-07-23 20:37:46 · answer #3 · answered by SivaM 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
On the whole? No. On a few things, yes. I don't know everything, so, of course, there have to be a few subjects that I am ignorant of... but I still learn, and I do not judge (consciously)
2007-07-23 18:34:08 · answer #4 · answered by ravenna_wing1 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, shamefully so. Embarrassingly so. But, not in the important stuff. ( Don't let that orange blob thing under my avatar fool you. Yahoo people gave that to me truly as a mercy thing for hanging around so long, that's all. For real. With my poor vision, though, the color of it is rather attractive in a swirling blur kinda way with the colors of my avatar. )
2007-07-23 19:43:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Not at all. I might not be the best of book I smart, but I have survival skills. I common sense. I can see a phony the min. I look at them. I have an inner sense of dangerous or threatening mannerism of people. I have great knowledge of useless TRIVIA questions.
2007-07-23 18:40:10 · answer #6 · answered by Marie 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
(consider)...even if I thought I was I doubt I would admit it or I might be too ignorant to remember so I wouldn't be able to answer this question therefore I wouldn't be able to type or turn on the computer..oh great now I'm lost and confused :-(
2007-07-24 01:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Remember this ignorance and stupidity are two separate things. Actually everyone is ignorant about something.
2007-07-23 18:40:33 · answer #8 · answered by dove2002 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In alot of areas, yes. For ignorance simply means "unknowing"
The only thing that i am certain of is that the more i learn the less i know....
Blessed Be
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Trinity
2007-07-23 19:00:17 · answer #9 · answered by trinity 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Very. I know a lot about nothing with substance. I'm just another stereotypical teenage girl and it's a problem because nothing Cosmogirl! says is going to help me in the "real world". I care about the wrong things and my priorities are definitely out of order.
2007-07-23 18:33:00 · answer #10 · answered by Hannah_X5 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋