Elizabeth May Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

The public never knows what he wants, but he always wants what he knows.

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

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

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.