Ignorance of Facts Quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

What I am unable to understand with the people who associate themselves with Trump is their willingness to overlook the dishonesty, the indecency, the lack of empathy, to be asked to go out every single day and why.

The public does not necessarily want to hear, much less to act on unsettling or disturbing findings… censorship can be, and is frequently supported by the majority of the population.

A person who gives his verdict before thoroughly examining the situation, and, a person who believes before looking at the evidence Do not give him the power to rule over those who seek for Knowledge, because he will not be able to do justice to his authoritarian position and hence, not being able to understand the judgments of the other wise people under him, he would not be able to distinguish a good man form a wicked person

For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed.

That mob of peers [House of Lords] did really represent the English people—that is to say, it was honest, ignorant, vaguely excited, almost unanimous, and obviously wrong.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Rulers who prefer popular opinion to truth have as much power as robbers in the desert.

Every day they [politicians] must weigh in on things of which they have little or no reliable knowledge or about which they just don't care.

Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just as valid as anyone else's. The fact is that our opinion on an infinitely large number of questions is not worth having, because everyone is infinitely ignorant.

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

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

I started thinking about what I've always been interested in: how people can't see things that are right in front of them. All you have to do is read the papers to see endless examples of smart people who can't see the nose on their faces.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

I was outvoted, having only reason on my side, and being opposed by a triple-headed monster, that shed the baneful influence of avarice, prejudice, and pusillanimity in all our assemblies.