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Ignorance Stupidity Quotes

13 quotes from 12 authors

We often blur the line between not knowing and lacking sense. The collected thoughts expose how ignorance can masquerade as stupidity, how authority may lean on blind obedience, and why innocence sometimes hides behind a perfect shield. For deeper insight, explore wisdom, critical thinking, and philosophy pages.

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I pity you and your ignorance and stupidity

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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

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The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

William C. Brown

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“How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by…

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“In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It”

George MacDonald Fraser

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Huh! Be two-faced & back-stabbing! The bridge you chose to burn has me on the other side with Karma laughing at your…

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“Our challenge is more of ignorance than stupidity. Having informed decisions most of us will make reasonable decisions.”

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He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it…

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It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he…

Walter J. Phillips

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood…

Lois McMaster Bujold

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