Ignorance Quotes

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment. It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

How unfortunate that we tend to miss the ones who leave but neglect the ones who stay.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

We are never free from what we choose to ignore.