Famous Quotes on Ignorance

Over 15,000 quotations and famous quotes. quotes and quotations

QuoteWorld :: Ignorance Search in this category

Sponsored Links

<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next >>
Quote	Author	Rating	Rate
"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity."	G Gaia
"Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."	Kahlil Gibran
"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."	Emma Goldman
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt."	Henry Graham Greene
"The little I know, I owe to my ignorance."	Sacha Guitry
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."	William Hazlitt
"If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics."	Luther H. Hodges
"Ignorance is the mother of fear."	Harry Homes
"The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path."	Stephen King
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."	Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."	John Knowles
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."	Titus Livius
"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."	James Russel Lowell
<< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next >>

Browse Ignorance quotes by Author:

Abba Eban	Akhenaton	Aldous Huxley
Anthony J. D'Angelo	Author Unknown	Baslo
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard Berenson
Bertrand Russell	Bokonon	Charles Caleb Colton
Charles J. C. Lyall	Clarence Seward Darrow	Clive Staples Lewis
Confucius	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Derek Curtis Bok
Emma Goldman	Epictetus	George Eliot
Gustave Flaubert	G Gaia	Harry Homes
Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene	Henry Thomas Buckle
Humphrey Davy	Isaac Asimov	James Madison
James Russel Lowell	Jean de La Fontaine	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
John Knowles	John Masefield	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kahlil Gibran	Laertius Diogenes	Lee C. Bollinger
Lord Billingsley	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton	Luther H. Hodges
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Mark Twain	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maya Angelou	Michael Masukawa	Richard David Bach
Sacha Guitry	Saul Bellow	Stephen King
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Henry Huxley	Titus Livius
William Hazlitt	William Ellery Channing	William James "Will" Durant
Æschylus