Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 215 Ignorance quotesIgnorance QuotesIgnorance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Prejudice is the child of ignorance.~ William Hazlitt The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.~ Robert A. Heinlein It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.~ Patrick Henry Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.~ Heraclitus Big business in America today and for some years has been openly at war with competition and, thus, at war with laissez-faire capitalism. ... The left's attack on corporate capitalism is, when examined, an attack on economic forms possible only in collusion between authoritarian government and bureaucratized, nonentrepreneurial business. It is unfortunate that many New Leftists are so uncritical as to accept this premise as indicating that all forms of capitalism are bad ...~ Karl Hess How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.~ Adolf Hitler To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats -- we know it not.~ Eric Hoffer To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.~ Eric Hoffer It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.~ Eric Hoffer Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true…The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.~ Jacob G. Hornberger Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.~ Elbert Hubbard Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.~ Aldous Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous Huxley One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, ‘I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.~ Henrik Ibsen I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.~ Robert G. Ingersoll There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. Ingersoll It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead.~ Thomas Jefferson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.~ Thomas Jefferson If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print