Quotes about Unenlightened

It is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of a Catholic clergy, a despotism is the proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one.

Early in his career, Santa Anna was an enthusiast for democracy. However, the republican form of government did not work at the time in Mexico and he developed into a despot and dictator.

Douglas MacArthur

The trouble with you, Eisenhower, is that you're too small minded.

In the late 1930's Dwight Eisenhower served as an aide to MacArthur in the Philippines when President Quezon offered to make MacArthur "Grand Marshall of the Philippines" and Eisenhower thought it inappropriate for an American general officer to have such a grandiose title:

Richard Dawkins

A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Harry Reid

It’s stupid, and you can’t fix stupid

This was Reid’s description of the behavior of some Secret Service Agents bringing prostitutes into a secure area in in Colombia. The facility was established for the preparation of a Presidential visit. A number of Secret Service Agents were fired as a result.

Thucydides

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Joe Namath

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Andrew O'Hagan

You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity.

Voltaire

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Herodotus

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Ryan Garcia

Some people are just naive to what they say.

Plato

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Zachary Taylor

Few men have ever had a more labor saving contempt for learning.

Karl Kraus

Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.

Linda Colley

If you believe you are the city on the hill, the world's best hope, it is tempting also to believe that outside your boundaries are barbarians.

Robert Browning

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Aaron Burr

… naturally dull and stupid.

John Prine

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

Herbert Henry Asquith

... the Austrians are quite the stupidest people in Europe … and there is a brutality to their mode of performance …

1st Earl of Oxford. While clearly a gross overgeneralization, the Austrian leadership were in the process of making some very stupid policy decisions that led to WW I and the destruction and breakup of their empire.

Orrin Hatch

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

Victor Cousin

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

Will Rogers

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

Bret Bielema

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

Will Arnett

I spent a lot of time quasi-fascinated with characters who were super-dumb and super-cocky. I always liked that combination.

Andrew Johnson

… savages … barbarians

Johnson was probably the most racist president in American History. Also the most ignorant. He is the only President to have never attended a single day of school.

Unenlightened Quotes