Quotes About Ignorance

Bill O'Reilly calls his tv show the "No Spin Zone" but the man is practically a whirling dervish. He combines willful ignorance with a simple child-like faith in the system that, not coincidentally, has made him a millionaire.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

Today, the voice of populist infantile politics is amplified by social media allowing the ignorant to claim equality with the informed.

Midnighter: I told you this wasn't going to end well... Bendix: ...but...I did what you...what the Authority...never could...fixed earth... Midnighter: No. You just gave them peace through corporate control and ignorance... through mindless consumerism. Bendix: Bulls*%t! The air is clean...no wars...people are happier...you can't deny...it's a finer world.

Looking back, we were poor, but no one told us.

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

When residents erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, after the murder of Freddie Gray, one activist was seen outside the Western District police station with a sign quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

Tell the story. Make it real for those who refuse to believe that such a thing can happen/has happened/is happening here. Bring the suffering to the attention of those who wallow in willful ignorance. In short, shatter the illusion of innocence at every turn and attack all the shibboleths the country holds sacred.

We see Humble Inquiry as primarily about reducing one's ignorance, making sense of complicated situations, and in that process, deepening relationships. In contrast, the primary role of helping inquiry is to influence—to teach, coach, counsel, and heal.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

savages. Dirty savages.

Ik weet niet wat een concubine is en ook niet wat je ermee in bad kunt doen. Ik dacht dat het een spons was.

this particular category of asshole compounds temerity with obliviousness.

Los idiotas siempre están seguros de todo, salvo de lo idiotas que son.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

Actually our ignorance and carelessness are more deliberate than accidental; we are entering Glen Canyon without having learned much about it beforehand because we wish to see it as Powell and his party had seen it, not knowing what to expect, making anew the discoveries of others. If the first rapids are a surprise to us it is simply because we had never inquired if there were any on this stretch of the river.

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that ain't so. —Will Rogers or Mark Twain or someone else

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all'ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.