Ignorance Cycle Quotes

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.