Bono Quotes

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.

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

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

He that knows nothing doubts nothing.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

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

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Not knowing anything is the sweetest life.

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.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.