Ignorance

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Well Worth Repeating

Posted in Education, Environment, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Agriculture, Carl Sagan, Communications, Education, Entertainment, Environment, Global Civilization, Ignorance, Medicine, Philosophy, Politics, Power, Quotes, Science, Technology, Transportation, Voting on May 12, 2026| Leave a Comment »

We’ve arranged a global civilization in which the most crucial elements — transportation, communications, and all other industries; agriculture, medicine, education, entertainment, protecting the environment; and even the key democratic institution of voting, profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

— Carl Sagan

[Yes, I’ve used this quote before. Somehow, it just feels like an appropriate time to repeat it… — kmab]

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Why Even The Good Should Also Be Careful

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Albert Camus, Evil, Good Intentions, Harm, Ignorance, Philosophy, Quotes, Understanding, World on March 2, 2026| Leave a Comment »

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

— Albert Camus

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My Feelings About The Administration Run By Felon In The Oval Office

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, Action, American Politics, Frightful, Ignorance, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Philosophy, Quotes on September 2, 2025| 2 Comments »

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Honor Is To Serve

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Altruism, Contentment, Dalai Lama, Greed, Happiness, Ignorance, Pain, Peace, Philosophy, Quotes, Satisfaction, Selfishness, Service, Suffering on July 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

— Dalai Lama

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Another Reason #47:DonTheFelon Wants To Destroy The Dept. Of Education

Posted in Education, History, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47:DonTheFelon, #47DonTheFelon, American Politics, Benjamin Franklin, Education, History, Ignorance, Philosophy, Public Weal, Quotes, U.S. Department of Education, Wickedness, Wisdom on April 9, 2025| 3 Comments »

Nothing is of more importance to the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are, in my opinion, the strength of a state: much more so than riches or arms, which under the management of Ignorance and Wickedness, often draw on destruction, instead of providing for the safety of a people.

— Benjamin Franklin

[Of course, the MAIN reason is to use public monies to fund private schools regardless of the “value” of their education or the provision of equal educational opportunity within a specific State. The States already control the majority of the funding and accreditation of the education facilities in their own states.

The Department plays a major role in shaping the nation’s education landscape, (again) although primary control of schools remains at the state and local levels.

The Department of Education does this by:
Policy Development: Formulating federal policies for education to improve quality and access.

Funding Administration: Distributing federal financial aid and grants to schools, institutions, and students in need.

Data Collection and Research: Gathering statistics on education and conducting research to inform policies and practices.

Civil Rights Enforcement: Ensuring that no one is discriminated against in educational programs receiving federal funding.

Support for State and Local Education: Providing guidance, resources, and funding to states and school districts.

Multiple individual States were unable or unwilling to do these things, so the Department of Education was formed to standardize the uniformity of access to quality education across the whole of the United States. — kmab]

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The Paradox: Knowledge Illuminates Ignorance

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Enlightenment, Ignorance, Intellectual Evolution, Knowledge, Limitations, Nikola Tesla, Paradoxes, Philosophy, Quotes on March 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

— Nikola Tesla

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#47:DonTheFelon’s: MAGA America First

Posted in Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, America First, American Economy, American Politics, Ignorance, Leverage, Philosophy, Quotes, Results, Warren Buffett on March 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

— Warren Buffett

[More like tragic than “interesting”… And we’ve only just begun. Buffett is talking about economics and the stock market, but he may as well be describing American politics. — kmab]

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#47DonTheFelon Is Both Child And Father

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, American Politics, Censorship, Children, Fathers, Fear, Ignorance, Laurie Halse Anderson, Politics, Quotes on February 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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Why some MAGA Can Be Well Educated And Still Stupid

Posted in Education, General Comments, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #47DonTheFelon, American Politics, Distinctions, Education, Facts, General Comments, Ignorance, John C. Holt, Philosophy, Quotes, Salary, Schools, Social Paradigm, Stupidity, Understanding, Upton Sinclair on February 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »

Someone asked the other day, “Why do we go to school?” Pat, with vigor unusual in her, said, “So when we grow up we won’t be stupid.” These children equate stupidity with ignorance. Is this what they mean when they call themselves stupid? Is this one of the reasons why they are so ashamed of not knowing something? If so, have we, perhaps unknowingly, taught them to feel this way? We should clear up this distinction, show them that it is possible to know very few facts, but make very good use of them.

Conversely, one can know many facts and still act stupidly. The learned fool is by no means rare in this country.

― John C. Holt
From his book: “How Children Fail“

[Ignorance can come from what you are taught incorrectly and as well as what you are not taught at all. In particular, ignorance can come from frequent and prolonged exposure to the intentional skewing of limited facts to promote ideology over truth. Finally, to quote Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” In our polarized political times, we have to substitute “social paradigm” for “salary”. If you are willing to punish the same people they dislike / hate, then some folks don’t really care if you are also a liar, a convicted criminal and consistently working to undermine their economic well being. — kmab]

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Why “News” Channels Should Not Be Allowed To Lie To Their Viewers

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged American Politics, Danger, False Knowledge, Faux (Fox) News, George Bernard Shaw, Ignorance, Philosophy, Quotes on January 25, 2025| 2 Comments »

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

— George Bernard Shaw

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Headlong Into A #47 Administration

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged American Politics, Eric Hoffer, Experience, Ignorance, Philosophy, Quotes, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements on January 18, 2025| Leave a Comment »

For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must have the feeling that by the possession of some potent doctrine, infallible leader or some new technique they have access to a source of irresistible power. They must also have an extravagant conception of the prospects and potentialities of the future. Finally, they must be wholly ignorant of the difficulties involved in their vast undertaking. Experience is a handicap.

— Eric Hoffer
From his book: “The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements“

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Posted in Education, Philosophy, Poems And Writing By Others, Poetry, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Ignorance, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, Philosophy, Poems And Writing By Others, Poetry, Quotes on November 16, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows.

― Octavia E. Butler
From her book: “Parable of the Talents“

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Understand A Reason

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Hypocrisy, Ignorance, Philosophy, Quotes, Rise Up and Salute the Sun, Suzy Kassem, Truth on August 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don’t, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don’t, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don’t, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don’t stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is so much wrong in the world.

— Suzy Kassem
From her book: “Rise Up and Salute the Sun“

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Life’s Great Illusion

Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Curiosity, Education, Enemies, Ignorance, Illusion, Knowledge, Philosophy, Quotes, Sacha Guitry, Stephen Hawking on April 28, 2023| 2 Comments »

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

[To append to Sacha Guitry’s quote: “The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.” …And to my curiosity, if not my schooling. — kmab]

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Or Failure (See: #45, For Example)

Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #45 - The Loser, Confidence, Failure, Ignorance, Life, Mark Twain, Needs, Philosophy, Politics, Success on April 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

— Mark Twain

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