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.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

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

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.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

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.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

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

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

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

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

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

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

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.

I am not a crook.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

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

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

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

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

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

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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

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

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