Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if...’; And then do it.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation – creation – there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans...