“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
Marc Bekoff (1945) American biologist
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
— Carl Sagan, book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer
“The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism,” Library of Economics and Liberty, July 6, 2015 http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Samuelsfascism.html
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: 1960s, Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 4 : Love in action, Sct. 3
Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer
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Lucian (120) ancient Greek writer
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Donovan (1946) Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist
Grip interview (1997)
Context: The most important of my achievements, if you want to call them that, was that I successfully introduced mystical ideas into pop culture, which was my obsession and my compulsion when I was 16 years old. So, behind all of this fame and fortune, there was a seeker, on a spiritual path — a young man who wanted to discover and share with others an alternative way of looking at the world. I wanted to save our culture from the stupidity and the bigotry and the ignorance that threatened it. And there was the Buddhist way, and the Celtic way.
“Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.”
Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
2000s, The End of Faith (2004)
“Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist