Are you so afraid to be called wrong you deny yourself the opportunity to be right?
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Quotes tagged ‘Ignorance’
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.
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…
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
When people say ‘Black Lives Matter, that doesn’t mean blue lives don’t matter.
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.
We need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.
Funny how you repeatedly hear people using their right to free speech to defend their right to hate speech.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Walk with those who are looking for the truth, run from those who think they have found it.
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…
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…
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…
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
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.
Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with an ill bringing-up, are far more fatal than total ignorance.
— Plato, amazon.com
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
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…
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.