The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

When I consider the lack of cooperation in human society, I can only conclude that is stems from ignorance of our interdependent nature.

At times you may feel yourself to be the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities. Try not to judge them - things aren't always what they seem. And it could be worse. You could be them!

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Ignorance makes us believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches us that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What we see today is not the fruit of chance but the fruit of seeds planted in the past. Seeds of peace planted now will create a life of peace in the future.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Fear always springs from ignorance

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

It is extroversion that wastes our energy and makes us feel weak. In a state of introversion we think less and speak less. We then have the power to put into action whatever we think and whatever we need to do.