Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 215 Ignorance quotesIgnorance QuotesIgnorance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh Billings The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.~ Jim Bishop The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.~ Justice Hugo L. Black I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.~ Reuben Blades More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.~ William Blake To be paranoid means to believe in delusions of danger and persecution. If the danger is real, and the evidence credible, then it cannot be delusional. To ignore the evidence, and hope that it CANNOT be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.~ William Blase When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.~ George Boas We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.~ Daniel Boorstin How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?~ Neal Boortz To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.~ James Bovard The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler Men willingly believe what they wish.~ Gaius Julius Caesar I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes.~ Andrew Carnegie The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.~ James Carville As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.~ Dick Cavett The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. Chaffee Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.~ Sir Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston Churchill Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print