Quotes About Ignorance

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.

permit ignorance is to empower

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding.

simpleminded, unhappy souls, who had never stood for anything, men who blindly abused the liberties and freedoms that others had fought to give them.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know

Perdónales, podríais decir, pues no saben lo que hacen. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

Marta le flaquearon las piernas. Esa mañana había oído en las noticias que un alto cargo municipal no identificado había muerto la noche anterior, pero no se le había ocurrido que pudiera ser Ignazio.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency

podríais decir, <>. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

people in general so often seem to get dumber in direct proportion to their academic training.

My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Ignorance, as well as wisdom, is handed down from one generation to the next like a precious heirloom.

Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.'" Saying

a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.

Like your kind/ we usually destroy what we cannot understand

Marmon Hamlit on "AllNet Now!" issued the final deathblow: "Oh, the poetry thing from Whathisname—couldn't read it. Didn't try."    Tyrena

shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

No. He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.

SOMETIMES SIRI SEEMED so ignorant it made me sick.

America was a nation that refused to grow up. It was a perpetual baby, a vast, pink, fleshy toddler, now in possession of some terrible weapons it did not know how to hold properly, much less use properly.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Ne poznavaju?i opasnost koja mi prijeti, bio sam jednako sretan kao da je zapravo i nije bilo.