Monday, February 23, 2009

THINGS THAT REALLY PISS ME OFF: PART 1

Hello there, and welcome to Part 1 of a potentially limitless series, Things That Really Piss Me Off.  Today, we're going to be talking about...

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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