Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

We think; therefore, we often talk rubbish.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs.

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

All the Khmer leaders and nobles, all the district chiefs and all the common people are ignorant, stupid, foolish and gullible. They have no idea what is true and what is false.

The capacity of this body for self delusion appears to this Senator to be unlimited.

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness.

It is perilous to ignore idiotic ideas if those idiotic ideas are broadly and fervently believed.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.

Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.