Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Be not arrogant because of that which you know; deal with the ignorant as with the learned

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

… when we know a thing we have only scorn for other people who don’t happen to know it.