K. J. Yesudas Quotes

I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.'

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Mr, Trump's comment reflect an insulting degree of ignorance and/or insensitivity. It demonstrates a profound ignorance of history.

People are just so insensitive because they're ignorant; they don't understand, so they're scared of what they're ignorant of.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

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

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

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

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

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

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Don't hold strong opinions about things you don't truly understand.