IGNORANCE!
DISCLAIMER: If you are ignorant, you should probably stop reading as you are likely to be offended. Not that I care.
Ignorance and ignorant people piss me off so much... that if I let myself go, this will turn into a rant, and not a witty, intelligent and biting commentary like I want it to be. Thus, I'm going to step back, and let people who are far wiser and who are far better speakers than me do the talking.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
-Albert Einstein
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
- Molly Ivins
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.
- Confucius
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
- Will Rogers
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
- Philip Wylie
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
- John Tillotson
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
- Aldous Huxley
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
- Isaac Asimov
Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
- Bob Hope
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
- Benjamin Franklin
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazlitt
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
- Mark Twain
There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
- Emma Goldman
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
- Frank Zappa
The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
- John Lyly
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
- Konrad Adenauer
Ahhh. That was very satisfying.
See you back here next time.
Steven
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