The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

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.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

I am confident my Hindutva face will be an asset when dealing with foreign affairs with other nations.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

It is necessary to look at the results of observation objectively, because you, the experimenter, might like one result better than another.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not ‚Am I really that oppressed?‘ but ‚Am I really that boring?‘

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.