In a Democracy

“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
--Thomas Sowell

Dumbing Down of America

“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 10 seconds), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
--Carl Sagan

Killer Ignorance

“Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Stupid Teachers

“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.”
--Thomas Sowell

Victory over Ignorance

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte

Popular Government

“A popular government, without popular information, or the mean of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
--James Madison

Interest of Tyrants

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
--Samuel Adams

Move On

“When ignorance screams, intelligence moves on.”
--Donald Jackson

Seek the Truth

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Ocean of Truth

“I seem to have been but a boy, standing on the beach, now and then finding a smoother rock or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
–Isaac Newton

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The Dividing Line

“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
--Ulysses S. Grant

Know It All

“One who imagines himself to be all-knowing will surely suffer on account of his ignorance.”
--Ali ibn Abi Talib

Impartial Ignorance

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
--G.K. Chesterton

Cannot Cure Stupidity

“Knowledge can cure ignorance, but intelligence cannot cure stupidity.”
--Unknown

Exchanges

“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance.”
--Robert Quillen

Stupidity & Genius

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
--Albert Einstein

Keep Learning

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for learning, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
--Atwood H. Townsend

Alcohol and Ignorance

“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.”
--Jay M. Bylsma

Education Costs

“Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."
--Claus Moser

Perimeter of Ignorance

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does our perimeter of ignorance.”
--Jeffrey Fry