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Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

Quotes by Jane Smiley

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.

Quotes by Janeane Garofalo

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

Quotes by James Smithson

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Quotes by James Madison

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper

The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.

Quotes by James Forman, Jr.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Quotes by James Baldwin

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.

Quotes by James Beattie

Ignorance is kind of bliss.

Quotes by Jackie DeShannon

We, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to educate its students to better the world. We tend to think that we do not fit the stereotype of ignorance and apathy that is all too often associated with America.

Quotes by Jack Schlossberg

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Quotes by Jack Germond

Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

Quotes by Issa Rae

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Quotes by Isaiah Berlin

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Quotes by Isaac Watts

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.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Quotes by Isaac Asimov

Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

Quotes by Irvine Welsh

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Quotes by Irene Peter

We will fight ignorance and a lack of information with information.

Quotes by Indya Moore

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

Quotes by Hozier

Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.

Quotes by Howard Jacobson

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Quotes by Horace Porter

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Quotes by Hippocrates

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Quotes by Hippocrates

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

Quotes by Hillary Clinton

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

Quotes by Hideki Tojo

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Quotes by Herodotus

I'm against ignorance.

Quotes by Herman Kahn

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Quotes by Henry Miller

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

Quotes by Henry Adams

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Quotes by Helena Blavatsky

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Quotes by Harry Lorayne

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

Quotes by Harold MacMillan

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Quotes by Hannes Alfven

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Quotes by H. L. Mencken

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Quotes by H. P. Lovecraft

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

Quotes by Haile Selassie

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Quotes by Guy Debord

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Quotes by Guru Nanak

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

Quotes by Greil Marcus

Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.

Quotes by Gregory Benford

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Quotes by Graham Greene

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Quotes by Gordon B. Hinckley

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.

Quotes by Giordano Bruno

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti

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

Quotes by George Will

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.

Quotes by George Packer

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Quotes by George H. White

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

Quotes by George Gillespie

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

George Eliot

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Quotes by George Chapman

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

Quotes by George Bancroft

Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

Quotes by Gayle Lynds

Our only solace as writers is in the work itself, and perhaps also in a penchant for blissful ignorance that allows us to gamble, to risk, to keep going where others would tote up the odds and stop.

Quotes by Gayle Lynds

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

Quotes by Gary Lucas

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Quotes by Garrison Keillor

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.

Quotes by Frederick Soddy

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 property will be safe.

Quotes by Frederick Douglass

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

Quotes by Frank Dane

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Quotes by Francois Rabelais

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Quotes by Frank A. Clark

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.

Quotes by Francois Hollande

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Quotes by Francis of Assisi

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Quotes by Frances Wright

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Quotes by Frances Wright

The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

Quotes by Filippo Brunelleschi

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

Quotes by Felice Picano

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

Quotes by Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Quotes by Eugenio Montale

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Quotes by Euripides

Your first book is kind of a labor of ignorance. You don't realize the difficulty of it. Your second book is sort of a labor of fear. Then you sort of either hit a stride, or you don't.

Quotes by Ethan Canin

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Quotes by Enrico Fermi

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Quotes by Enrico Fermi

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.

Quotes by Elizabeth May

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.

Quotes by Eliezer Yudkowsky

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Quotes by Elias Hicks

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Elbert Hubbard

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Elbert Hubbard

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Quotes by Edwin Armstrong

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Quotes by Edwin Armstrong

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Quotes by Edward Irving

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

Quotes by Edward de Bono

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

Quotes by Edward Albert

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Quotes by Edi Rama

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

Quotes by Douglas Alexander

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

Quotes by Donovan

Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

Quotes by Donald Ray Pollock

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