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★ Ignorance & Ignorant

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.  Malcolm Forbes 

 

 

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.  Professor Stephen Hawking

 

 

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.  Professor David Ray Griffin

 

 

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.  We are the custodians of life’s meaning.  We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes.  But knowledge is preferable to ignorance.  Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.  If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.  Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

 

 

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness ...

 

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.  Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

 

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.  ibid.    

 

 

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance?  Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.  George Eliot, Daniel Deronda 

 

 

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.  Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle 

 

 

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.  Henry Brooks Adams, 1838-1918

 

 

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.  Lawrence M Krauss

 

 

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.  Will Durant

 

 

Dogmatism and scepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing.  What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.  Bertrand Russell   

 

 

He always called himself an uneducated man.  Da Vinci: The Lost Treasure, BBC 2011

 

 

And usually it’s Christians who haven’t got the faintest idea in the world what’s going on.  Christians are the most ill-informed ignorant people on the face of the Earth.  Jordan Maxwell, interview Keith Thompson

 

 

I believe every American should be forced to commiserate with people from other countries while they are growing up.  Only when I talked to people from outside my borders did I realize how insanely myopic the entire establishment of the US is.  People here really can’t seem to understand why the world gets mad at us.  It is not evil that’s the problem here I think, just incredible, earth-shattering, incalculable, painfully entrenched ignorance.  spf2119, board post 2001

 

 

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.  Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.  Thomas Jefferson

 

 

Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  Martin Luther King

 

 

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism.  By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keep us in touch with the ignorance of the community.  Oscar Wilde

 

 

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance: a pernicious evil, the darkener of mans life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of Truth.  Ben Jonson

 

 

What you don’t know can’t hurt you.  Late 16th century proverb

 

 

Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.  Mid-18th century proverb

 

 

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.  Robert Browning

 

 

I see no other single hindrance such as this hindrance of ignorance, obstructed by which mankind for a long long time runs on and circles on.  Pali Tipitaka

 

 

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.  Karl Popper

 

 

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.  William Henry Beveridge, 1879-1963

 

 

And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,

Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.  William Shakespeare, II Henry IV vii 72-73, Saye

 

 

O monstrous ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!  William Shakespeare, Loves Labours Lost IV ii 22-23

 

 

O heavy ignorance!  Thou praisest the worst best.  William Shakespeare, Othello II i 146-147

 

 

Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.  William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear II ii 78, Kent

 

 

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.  John F Kennedy, address Vanderbilt University 18th May 1963

 

 

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

 

To be ignorant of ones ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.  Amos Bronson Alcott

 

 

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.  Daniel Boorstin

 

 

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil, and that no-one knows the truth.  Molly Ivans

 

 

From ignorance our comfort flows,

The only wretched are the wise.  Matthew Prior, To the Hon Charles Montague, 1692

 

 

I pity his ignorance and despise him.  Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Fanny Squeers  

 

 

It’s appropriate that the word ‘ignorance’ is an extension of the word ‘ignore’.  We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.  David Icke

 

 

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.  Jeremy Bentham

 

 

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.  Socrates  

 

 

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.  Hunter S Thompson

 

 

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.  Percy Bysshe Shelley  

 

 

The truest characters of ignorance

Are vanity, and pride, and annoyance.  Samuel Butler, Hudibras, 1663-1664

 

 

Ignorance never settles a question.  Benjamin Disraeli, speech House of Commons 14 May 1866

 

 

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,

The lowest of your throng.  John Milton, Paradise Lost IV:830

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