Ignorance Quotes - Page 26

I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.

How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been forced to vegetate in his primitive stupidity: he has been taught stories about invisible powers upon whom his happiness was supposed to depend. Occupied solely by his fears, and by unintelligible reveries, he has always been at the mercy of priests, who have reserved to themselves the right of thinking for him, and of directing his actions.

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

We must first note that economic factors are taken into account in a world in which ignorance, prejudice, and mental confusion, encouraged rather than dispelled by the political organization, exert a strong influence on policy making.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Don't censor yourself to comfort their ignorance.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.