Quotes about Ignorance

Most British citizens had never seen anyone branded or whipped or subjected to thumbscrews. They had no idea that conditions on West Indian sugar plantations were so brutal that most of the slaves were literally worked to death in just a few years and most of the female slaves were too ill to bear children.

Bonhoeffer was simply saying that if we wished truly to live, we must be prepared to die. And this was not bad news at all, but rather was the very best of good news imaginable. In fact it is called the good news or the gospel, and it is simply that Jesus has purchased for us a passage to eternal life, something so outrageous and unbelievable that most people really don't believe it and therefore ignore it.

Ignorance never settles a question.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about . . .

With selective hearing, these individuals will hold to the status quo and gravitate toward those who will tell them what they want to hear at the neglect of what they need to hear.

The best thing about being dead is that you don't know about it. It's like being stupid - it's only painful for others.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

Jealousy and stupidity really do most of the harm that is done in the world.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.