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.

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

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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.

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

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

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.

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.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

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.

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

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

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.

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

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

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.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

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

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

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it’s again not people who are intrinsically evil.

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

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

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

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

I am not a crook.

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‘.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

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.

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

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

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