Quotes About Ignorance

America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on.

Win or lose, Trump's campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid S

It was also the content. Trump sold hate, violence, xenophobia, racism, and ignorance, which oddly enough had long been permissible zones of exploration for American television entertainment. And the news media was becoming more and more indistinguishable from entertainment media. Meanwhile

the two most taboo lines in all media in America are I don't know and I don't care.

I don't know anything about computers. I don't even know how often to change the oil.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class

Let's face it: the vast majority of the American people are just not intelligent enough to function independently in a modern technological society. They have to be led, for their own good. The problem is, most of them are too ignorant to know what's best for them.

sighed in resignation, having long since given up on today's youth and their utter historical illiteracy, a product of their deliberate educational brainwashing.

Also, I don't really keep up with the news. I watched CNN once, but that was only because I couldn't get to the remote control without dislodging the catheter.

None so blind as those that will not see.

An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials.

I knew very little about Afghanistan. Like most of my fellow countrymen, I preferred not to learn too much about dysfunctional countries until after my government invaded them. It's emotionally easier that way.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be," he explained.86

The change from herbalism to commercial drugs is not founded upon "science," but upon a complex commercial and political plaform supporting a materialistic vision of human life. There is no proof that "herbs do not work." They are simply ignored and ridiculed. Studies are invented, not to try to show that they work, but designed to demonstrate that they do not.

The world of ignorance and suffering—called samsara in Sanskrit—is not a fundamental condition of existence but a mental universe based on our mistaken conception of reality.

Since true happiness is not limited to momentary relief from life's ups and downs, it requires us to eliminate the major causes of unhappiness, which, as we have seen, are ignorance and mental toxins. If happiness is indeed a way of being, a state of consciousness and inner freedom, there is essentially nothing to prevent us from achieving it.

Man is like a blind person who denies the existence of light because he doesn't see it. Light is a great mystery, for the blind!

El hombre se asemeja a un ciego que niega la luz porque no la ve. ¡La luz es un hondo misterio para el ciego!

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

This is where the mystification of institution comes from: as knowledge, it is necessary that institution is also ignorance, as ignorance (of its actual functioning) institution is also the knowledge of it (since it is in history as use value).

A pre-self, a latent ego that remains in ignorance of itself, because it has not yet encountered in others a limit to the self.

Potiorek was a bachelor who had devoted his life monastically to his profession, while remaining ignorant of every aspect of it that was either modern or important;