Quotes About Ignorance

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

I wouldn't expect you to get it, Daisy. You don't look at anything besides Photoplay—and even then somebody's gotta explain the pictures to you." Daisy's mouth hung open in outrage. "Well, I never!" "Yeah, that's what you tell all your fellas, but the rest of us aren't buying it. Go away, now, Daisy. Shoo, little fly!

And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes its true shape. I fight to go back to that blissful ignorance, but it is too late. The dull pain of truth weights my soul, pulling it under. I am left hopelessly awake.

People will believe anything it it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on living their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

if there's anything I'm starting to learn about people it's (a) that they are fundamentally suspicious and afraid of anyone who is "different," and (b) that fear makes them do and say asinine things.

Jaunti, who was half Qwilleran's age, now had the gall to write a column of wit and wisdom from the Delphic heights of his adolescent ignorance.

Never before had he met anyone who knew, or cared, that it was Chesterfield who said: Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.

The world is a complex place and only idiots and assholes think they know it all.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.