« All Ignorant Quotes · Bertrand Russell's Page
Ignorant Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,…
- The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are not trained to…
- The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
- So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent.…
- A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence…
- I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man…
More Ignorant Quotes
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams
- The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is… — Annie Besant
- The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant. — Mary J. Blige