Ignorance & Stupidity Quotes

Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The fact is that we all seem capable of living, because at some time or other we have taken refuge in a lie, in blindness, in enthusiasm, in optimism, in some conviction, in pessimism or something of the sort. He has never taken refuge in anything. He is absolutely incapable of lying. He has nothing to take refuge in, no shelter. It's as if he were naked and everyone else had clothes on.

Milena Jesenska

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

William Hazlitt

Hanlon's Razor:Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Anon.

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

Bhagavad Gita

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

John Tillotson

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Thucydides

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow