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Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
~ Averroes
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
~ Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
~ Phil Plait
But when I did it (the triple-double), I didn't even know it until someone told me.
~ Oscar Robertson
People can burn down books... but not knowledge.
~ Alin Sav
Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a morbid rotation that sometimes can be hard to escape from.
~ Manos Abou Chabke
Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing.
~ Pasha Cook
Never ever let a stupid criticise you. And as we already know, everyone is stupid.
~ Sarvesh Jain
If you want courage, kill fear and blindfold ignorance
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.
~ Ogwo David Emenike
There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see this crap movie.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
~ Barbara Tuchman
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
~ Boris Pasternak
Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
~ Simone Weil
This is one of Travis's greatest gifts: the ability to make all unpleasantness and worry disappear simply by not paying attention. He's like a goldfish with a head injury.
~ Will Leitch
There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
~ Will Rogers
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
~ Will Rogers
Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.
~ Will Rogers
It's not what we don't know that hurts. It's what we know that ain't so.
~ Will Rogers
Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.
~ Will Rogers
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
~ Will Rogers