Ignorance Quotes - Page 78

The lottery is a tax on ignorance, and all the losers that play the game are paying the price for their stupidity.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

The consequences of whiteness are particularly lethal right now. And the ignorance about it, especially on the part of white people themselves, makes them unavoidably complicit in a system that has to be unmasked, unveiled, undressed in order to be reformed or destroyed.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

You'll see that it'll take more than five and a half months to wipe away peel;scrape away the blanket of ignorance that has been plastered and replastered over those brains in the past three hundred years. You'll see.

Infallibility and invincible ignorance are the same thing.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.