I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
Gore VidalTag: america ignorance americans society-thinking murica
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
Nalini SinghTag: wisdom ignorance knowing growing smarts
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
Robert FulghumNo emphaty when you had blinders on.
Toba BetaThe shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
Dan SimmonsA fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.
Adedayo kingjerryTag: wisdom knowledge ignorance
Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
OshoIgnorance was bliss.
Chuck PalahniukImagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.
Now, the people of this land know about dragons because their leaders have warned them about them. They tell stories about cruel dragons with razor teeth and fiery breath. They recount legends of dragons hunting by night on silent wings. In short, the leaders make sure that the people believe in all the qualities of dragons, including that key quality of existence. And then they control the people — when they need to — with their fear of dragons. The people pay a dragon-slaying tax … everyone stays indoors after dark to avoid being snatched by swooping claws … and nobody ever strays out of bounds for fear of being eaten well and truly up.
Perhaps somebody will wonder if dragons aren’t, after all, fictitious because — despite their size — nobody seems to have actually seen one. And so it is necessary from time to time to provide evidence: a burnt tree or two, a splintered rock, the mysterious absence of a villager. The population is controlled by the dragons in its collective mind. It’s contrived superstition, and it is possible because the people do not know enough about the way the world works to know that dragons do not exist.
Tag: existence faith dragons ignorance control superstition
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
Mercedes LackeyTag: prejudice ignorance inexperience amberdrake mercedes-lackey
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