Heraclitus Quotes

People never notice anything.

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

The South has eyes but does not see, and ears but does not hear.

Out of sight, out of mind.

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.

Everyone knows people like that: You're looking at their milky, glazed-over eyes, and you know they're not listening.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.

You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.

Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is his absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere leads him by the nose; thus let but a Rising of the Sun, let but a Creation of the World happen twice, and it ceases to be marvellous, to be noteworthy, or noticeable.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.