Top 1200 Stupidity And Ignorance Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity. For Chance rarely conflicts with intelligence, and most things in life can be set in order by an intelligent sharpsightedness.

They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much more stupid than himself, and by God he's always right.

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

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

In the soil of ignorance, fear can easily be sown.

In many places, the zoning prohibits the mixing of retail and residential. This stupidity has been accompanied by stupidities in municipal policy, such as disallowing accessory apartments - under the theory that renters are incapable of behaving decently.

There's a great difference between innocence and ignorance.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

I can’t believe you cheated! (Phobos) I can’t believe you didn’t know it. Man, what kind of god are you? I never knew stupidity had a divine representative. Guess I was wrong, huh? (Deimos)

The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.

Jesus comes among us, in our all division, not to instruct, comfort or inspire but to die. In doing so, He answers the sum of our self-regard, stupidity and cruelty.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

Over a third of the Newenhan population was under eighteen,which didn't make his job any easier, the hormonally challenged being terminally and all too often fatally prone to acts of stupidity.

As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.

In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

God is an ever receding pocket of? scientific ignorance.