Quotes About Ignorance

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too much information, where words are drowned out, not banned, and important ideas and events are ignored.

If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.

I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.

This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Promises made out of ignorance should not be kept.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.

The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

I've been ignored by prettier women than you, but none who carried the heavy pitchers of silenceso far, without spilling a drop.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

I've never seen any 'Star Wars' movie.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.