Quotes About Ignorance

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

I don't engage in social media, which has its good and bad sides, I guess - but the good side is when people hate my guts, I'm kind of oblivious to it.

I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope from the bank - they freak me out.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Unbelievers enjoy the security of their unbelief; there is great confidence in ignorance.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?