Top 56 Quotes About Stupidity And Ignorance
#2. Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...
Elizabeth Janeway
#3. Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.
Gabriel Chevallier
#4. The prince is blind to subtlety. He knows his own ignorance and stupidity so is ever suspicious of others, especially when they say things he does not understand. One cannot negotiate when dragged in the wake of emotions.
Steven Erikson
#5. Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#6. Don't name our stupidity, ignorance, stupid rules and lack of skills DESTINY!
Maliheh Sadat Razavi
#7. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.
Auliq Ice
#8. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#9. Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke
#10. Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.
Thomas C. Foster
#11. I take from the poor and give to the rich. They just happen to be the same individuals. Poor and stupid before they learn from me and pay with their time and money, but rich and successful after they do. The truly miserable, however, don't know how poor they are, and I want nothing from them.
Robin Sacredfire
#12. I have a sense of humor; but over the years that sense has developed one blind spot. I can no longer laugh at ignorance or stupidity. Those are our chief enemies, and it is dangerous to make fun of them.
Charles Francis Richter
#13. I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness.
Sarina Bowen
#14. The frantic stupidity of Wall Street's stock order routers and algorithms was simply an extension into the computer of the willful ignorance of its salespeople.
Michael Lewis
#15. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#16. My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.
Michael Moore
#17. Ignorance and stupidity are given the names of simplicity and innocence ... Idleness appears as desire for a quiet life.
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
Aldous Huxley
#19. How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?
Sorin Cerin
#20. When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will 'give way' and it is I who will 'fall.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Ignorance didn't feel like bliss. It felt like stupidity, and she hated it. "That
Beth Cato
#22. Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
Thomas Sowell
#23. I leave the outdoors to you. It is too warm out there to read comfortable, and summer, like many uncomfortable things, is as welcome as a dim woman. It is tolerable to look at, but after being made to interact with it, nobody wants anything to do with it.
Michelle Franklin
#24. The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.
Hamid Drake
#25. You can't believe everything you read - or hear. Accepting things at face value without the need to question and dig deeper is ignorance at best, stupidity at worst.
Vivian Eve
#26. It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.
Willie Dixon
#28. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#29. good is what we built when it leads to this? What good is knowledge when stupidity and ignorance will always trump it? Well,
David D. Hammons
#30. Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
Michael Lewis
#32. Should we tolerate the blatant incorrectness of religion? Tolerating ignorance, superstition and stupidity will not provide for a healthy advancement of our society. Religion is cancer for modern thought, rationality, and even common sense.
Odin Zeus McGaffer
#33. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.
Oliver Goldsmith
#34. It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
Walter J. Phillips
#35. It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.
Auliq Ice
#37. The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
Mark Twain
#38. You've got another problem. Like most white trash, you're disrespectful to your betters and proud of your stupidity and ignorance.
James Lee Burke
#39. The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
Aldous Huxley
#40. Fate had a cruel sense of humor. It had been all his fault, anyway, whatever Mick or Gillia told him. Careless preoccupation and utter stupidity. Boyhood ignorance and negligence. He was only getting what he deserved, over and over again, for the rest of his life. If only in his dreams.
V.S. Carnes
#41. A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.
Franz Grillparzer
#42. The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.
William C. Brown
#43. God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives 'declining'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. Reviewers do not read books with much care ... their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
Anthony Burgess
#45. Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.
Auliq Ice
#46. In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It
George MacDonald Fraser
#47. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#48. Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave Flaubert
#49. People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own.
Auliq Ice
#50. Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
#51. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.
David Bosch
#54. It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.
William Cooper
#55. Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.
Auliq Ice
#56. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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