Quotes About Ignorance

Let them eat cake.

The Greek philosopher Socrates once said, "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Very few stories convey the profound truth of his statement better than this story of Chinese Taoist origin:

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In the vacuum created by fear and ignorance and hunger and want, it's evil, not good, that rushes to fill the void.

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

no people can be both ignorant and free.