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#1

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
― Voltaire

tags: ignorance, wisdom

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#2

“Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: humor, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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#3

“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
― Fidel Castro

tags: hunger, ignorance, illness, oppression, poverty, war, wealth, weapons, weapons-of-mass-destruction

149 likes

#4

“Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.”
― Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

tags: harry-dresden, history, ignorance

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#5

“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

tags: ignorance

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#6

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

tags: mental-illness, sanity, society

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#7

“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

tags: human-mind, ignorance, mind, religion-and-science, religion-vs-science, science, science-and-religion, science-vs-religion, wisdom

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#8

“Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: cynicism, disinformation, false-belief, false-gods, idols, ignorance, life-calling, life-purpose, mass-media, materialism, media-bias, misinformation, modern-society, negative-attitude, negative-people, negativity, popular-culture, public-opinion, reality-creation, reality-tunnel, skepticism, society, society-s-increasing-stupidity, soul-purpose, superficiality

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#9

“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

tags: discourse, ignorance, knowledge, media, nate-silver, opinions, politics, polls, television

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#10

“Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

tags: ignorance, power, pride

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#11

“People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: delusion, ego, ignorance, reality

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#12

“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.”
― Jay Bylsma

tags: alcohol, drinking, ignorance, simile

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#13

“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
― Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination, propaganda

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#14

“Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.

"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.”
― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

tags: america, education, ignorance, osama, terrorism, war-on-terror

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#15

“Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: betrayal, deathless, hatred, honesty, ignorance, lies-lying-liars, love-hurts

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#16

“The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: charms, clichés, desirability, disdain, education, empowerment, equality, folly, foolishness, girls, ignorance, imbecility, inferiority, men, perception, prejudice, reason, stereotypes, stupidity, women

55 likes

#17

“I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.

I wish every grad student had that attitude.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: heroism, ignorance, knowledge

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#18

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: accusations, bitter, blind-to-truth, character, character-assassination, civil-rights, conscience, creator, criticism, deceased-people, destroy, entertainment, evidence, falsely-accused, falsely-destroyed, god, gossip, gossip-quotes, gossiping, guilt-by-trial, guilty, guilty-conscience, history, hung-jury, ignorance, inestigators, innocence, innocent, integrity, investigate, judging, judging-actions, judging-others, judicial-system, jury-hearing, justice, knowledge, lamp, lamps, law, law-and-order, lie, light, lying, media, media-distortion, misjudge, misjudged, misjudgment, opinion, opinions-of-others, politics, popular-opinion, press, proof, recognize-truth, repuation-mangement, reputation, rumors, rumours, seek, seek-truth, society, tangerines, telling-the-truth, thinking, trial, trust-your-heart, truth, truth-and-justice, truth-telling, witness, woman, women

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#19

“لا شئ يقتل الفكر مثل الخوف (ولا شئ يقوي الخوف مثل الجهل)”
― أحمد مستجير, علم اسمه الضحك

tags: fear, ignorance

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#20

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: ignorance

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#21

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

tags: humans, ignorance

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#22

“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

tags: fear, ignorance, inspirational, pride

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#23

“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

tags: blindness, ignorance, intelligence, narrow-mindedness, opinions, reality, reality-check

107 likes

#24

“Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.”
― Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

tags: carl-sagan, debate, education, ignorance, informed, knowledge, perspective, rational

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#25

“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: ignorance, truth

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#26

“I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.”
― Dr. Seuss

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#27

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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