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.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. . They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down
Science is the topography of ignorance.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Stupidity is without anxiety.
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects.
Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
We only see what we aim at.
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