Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor...

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

The belief is indeed important, but ignorance generated from it, no.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

I knew I needed to tell this story … and discovered the depth of my ignorance in doing so.

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, ‘Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world. Our life on earth is but a...

In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and ‘innocence’ into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve...

I can’t blame most people if they don’t read a lot. Because they have their own preferences. If they find an article long, they won’t even finish. So as to say, I am glad I...

…”stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information that he or she can put out. ‘Stupidity’ is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social...

hypothesis” means ‘guess,’ people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance – almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge...

Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of...

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don’t hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us…

New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn’t make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked on CNN if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president,...

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

Nina matatizo ya kiafya: Udadisi wa hali ya juu wa kiakili.

When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course...

You’re just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day… The owners of this country know the truth… it’s called the American...

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not...

The people need to know that the people need to know. And I’m just the man to let them know that they need to know. However, what they need to know, I do not know.

I didn’t know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves.

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

It was clear to me that it wouldn’t matter what I did – they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle – they were insensible,...

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our...

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

It was just done out of ignorance.

Fatally, the term ‘barbarian’ is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any...

It’s a fact that people are afraid of what they don’t understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think.”That’s sad,’ said Montag, quietly, ‘because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever...

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Sometimes it’s good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one’s headstone is this: ‘He never knew what hit him’.

I don’t know.” That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.