ignorance

ignorance

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. 1984
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. Philosophical Dictionary
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. Major Barbara
It takes a very long time to become young.
A man is responsible for his ignorance. Laughable Loves
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.