There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

— Swami Vivekananda

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching…

— Tom Smothers

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.

— Howard Jacobson

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about…

— Andrew Lang

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

— Albert Einstein

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

— John Adams

“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

— Hermann Hesse

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

— Victor Hugo

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can…

— Jane Austen

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” ― Les miserables”

— Victor Hugo