Maya Angelou Quotes

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

The public's not stupid.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

Whether on guns, race, culture or feminism, there really are two Americas.

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers a way out.

This country was seriously divided.

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

Information is bad for knowledge.