Quotes About Ignorance

One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

I met a white man once, who claimed that every black man has a gene which makes him violent. To which, I said I had never been violent and that he was wrong.

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is contracted - until Magic Johnson came out. I'd stereotyped it, thinking it was a gay disease, a white man's disease.

To some degree, it seems like around the country people are just living life like there is no virus. And that's scary.

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

People often feel threatened by things that are different. It reflects their ignorance, not your reality.

There's none so blind as those who will not see.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

You can't imagine how much it hurts to be ignored by people… you respect. You don't know how loud the silence is or how deeply it cuts. It's bad enough watching the hatred touch my brothers. I'd rather die than see it touch you.

If you still have to ask, shame on you.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries. (Robert Jastrow, astronomer)

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

If stupid was sand, he'd be half the Sahara.

You're not quite as ignorant as you pretend, Chief Inspector." "Oh, my ignorance knows no bounds, Father.

Oscar Wilde said there's no sin except stupidity.

Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.

stopped subscribing to the Montreal papers. Ignorance really was bliss.