Stephanie Beatriz Quotes

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

The bulk of mankind, even in those nations which are most celebrated for learning and wisdom, are still carried down the torrents of superstition, and entertain very unworthy apprehensions

… fear false knowledge

People usually tend to believe grim words rather than positive ones.

Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

Ignorance breeds fear.

If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

I get angry when I think that people are blatantly incorrect on matters of fact.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty

The line between science and magic becomes blurred so that public judgments on technical issues can be erratic or badly flawed. It frequently appears that some people will believe almost anything. Thus judgments can be manipulated or warped by unscrupulous groups. Distortions or outright falsehoods can come to be accepted as fact.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Superstition is our great enemy, but bigotry is worse.

A misconception remains a misconception, even when it is shared by the majority of people.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just totally wrong. It might have said something in the large papers in the bigger city headlines and things. But, you take a look at any of the local papers, and you will see that I was acquitted. I never went to jail.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

Fear and ignorance fuel so much homophobia.

There are plenty of myths out there that are either really expensive to do or incredibly difficult or complicated to execute.