“Are you so afraid to be called wrong you deny yourself the opportunity to be right?”— Sade Andria Zabala, sadeandriazabala.com
“Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“When people say ‘Black Lives Matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.”— Barack Obama, bustle.com
“First of all, don’t ever start a sentence with, ‘If I were a black father.' If you are a black father, you don’t need to say it and if you aren’t, you should probably just shut the fuck up.”— Seth Meyers, thedailybeast.com
“We need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.”— Malala Yousafzai, themarysue.com
“Funny how you repeatedly hear people using their right to free speech to defend their right to hate speech.”— Anonymous, theguardian.com
“Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of a…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“I hope I’m wrong to think that Britain has made a choice that will have very bad consequences, because I don’t wish disaster on my country. But among the things to fear is what happens when the millions of poorer Britons who were seduced by the Brexiters discover that it is not the miracle solution…”— Andrew Rawnsley, theguardian.com
“The Founding Fathers had it right. There is an inherent danger coming from direct democracy when combined with an uninformed and manipulated public that has to decide the policy of a country, as we saw on June 23 when 36 percent of eligible voters in the UK chose to exit the European Union. Again, t…”— Franz-Stefan Gady, thediplomat.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“In politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. It’s not cool to not know what you’re talking about. That’s not keeping it real or telling it like it is. That’s not challenging political correctness. That’s just not knowing what you’re talking about.”— Barack Obama, vox.com
“Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.”— Plato, amazon.com
“People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulat…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”— Douglas Adams, goodreads.com