Unenlightened Thinking Quotes

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine things.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

There are …, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

We must consider the ruling propensities of every age of the world.… superstition and fanaticism rule with unlimited domination, and the understanding of man really seems to be going backwards.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Human stupidity is international.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write.

I hate stupid people. They should have to wear signs that just say, 'I'm stupid.'

Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms.