Ignorance Quotes

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

Isaac Asimov

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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

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To act like everyone has had the same access to share their funny is willful ignorance at its best - and just a good ol' fashioned front at its truth.

Amanda Seales

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold MacMillan

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

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This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in the early days of computer software, he might have understood that there could never be a market for consumer software - but the 19-year-old Gates went ahead and cofounded Microsoft.

Steven Levy

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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.

Felice Picano

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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Gore Vidal

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Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.

Shonda Rhimes

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Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Candace Owens

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Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events.

George Will

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We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Ron Reagan

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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Euripides

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Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

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Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

David Furnish

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We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

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A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

Charles B. Rangel

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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.

Luciano De Crescenzo

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Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

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Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views demonstrate a deep ignorance about Mexican immigrants in the United States.

Jorge Ramos

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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Alan Alda

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