Quotes About Ignorance

A terrorist is the most foolish and naïve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven.

Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely.

How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

Proudness is from ignorance, humbleness is from wisdom

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.