Nick Cannon Quotes

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Education is dangerous - every educated person is a future enemy.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

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

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

The first thing we learned growing up was to hate Jews. I’ll never forgot the first song I learned in school, ‘Arabs our beloved and Jews our dogs.’ I used to wonder at that time who the Jews were, but repeated the words with the rest of the kids without any knowledge of the meaning.

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

Yes, it is frustrating to listen to those who foment fear, suspicion and intolerance, who don't know the mistakes of history, and are in the midst of repeating them. Have faith that the character of the American people as a whole is such that, in the end, we will choose not to drink this brand of soiled milk.

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

There are a great many people who do not understand things so there is no use in telling them.

The complicated futility of ignorance.

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

What do they teach them at these schools?