Fred W. Friendly Quotes

What you don't know can hurt you.

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

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb.

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

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

There are things that we know, and there are things that we don't know. Then there are the things that we don't even know that we don't know. Those are the things that are the hardest.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.