Home / Topics / Ignorance Quotes

Ignorance Quotes

Browse 4419 quotes about Ignorance.

Ignorance Quotes

“Do you think you can cure the hatreds and the maladjustments of the world by hanging them? You simply show your ignorance and your hate when you say it. You may here and there cure hatred with love and understanding, but you can only add fuel to the flames by cruelty and hate.”

Thinking World May Shows Hate Understanding Ignorance Hatred Add Cruelty Cures Flames Fuel Here And There

Book:Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

Source: Clarence Darrow on the Death Penalty

“On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.”

Mind Humans Christian Sides Religious Ignorance Capable Hatred Bigotry Human Mind Superstitions Blackness

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.”

“I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.”

People Want Fighting Ignorance Hatred Injured Taliban Landmines

Author:Giles Duley

“Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.”

Ifs Ignorance Destruction Hatred Checks

Author:Daryl Davis

“What good are laws that cannot be read or understood, or a tongue that spews only hatred or ignorance? What good is the written word to an illiterate man?”

Men Law Written Ignorance Understood Hatred Tongue Illiterate Written Word

Author:Delores Phillips

“Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.”

Way Ignorance Source Hatred Realization

Author:Dalai Lama

“The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.”

Powerful Ignorance Hatred Greed Monopoly

Author:Cornel West

“It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for president that has been offered by the Republican party. Such people seem to be motivated only by short-sighted greed, ignorance, fear and hatred.”

People Humans Has Beens Seems Causes President Party Race Ignorance Republican Members Hatred Vote Shame Species Greed Human Race Candidates Motivated Republican Party Short Sighted

Author:Allen W. Wood

“In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need to have optimism that the world can be a better place, and we can leave a legacy for our children. Being bilingual, travel and studying geography, culture and religions can help.”

World Children Helping Culture Study Ignorance Hatred Optimism Our Children Legacy Geography

Author:Greg Mortenson

“Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.”

Giving Children Sometimes Compassion Enemy Ignorance Hatred Our Children Legacy Afghanistan

Author:Greg Mortenson

“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”

“They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.”

Mind Self Age Path Taken Ignorance Hatred Lips Burned Hopelessness Scorn Consuming Outrage Fiery Self Hatred Cones

Author:Toni Morrison

“Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.”

Ignorance Hatred

Book:House of Night Series

Source: House of Night Series

“... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.”

Law Fear Powerful Rights Violence Ignorance Hatred Cycles Most Powerful Tribalism

Book:Cloud Atlas: A Novel

Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel

“The value of hatred and ignorance is found in the fact that without them we could never truly appreciate wisdom and love.”

Facts Values Hate Found Ignorance Appreciate Hatred And Love Love Hate

Author:Wes Fesler

“Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.”

Love Inspirational Humans Science Hate Winning Justice Attitude Ignorance Victory Gay Hatred Errors Injustice Lgbt Human Love Ignorant People

Author:Magnus Hirschfeld