Uninformed Quotes

• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.

  Benjamin Carson

  Party, Responsibility, Media

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• I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

  William Golding

  Passionate, Ease, Opinion

  William Golding (2013). “To the Ends of the Earth”, p.414, Faber & Faber

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• If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

  Stephen Coonts

  Age, Information, Opinion

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• The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Lying, Simple, Ordinary

  "Justice Kennedy Wants You to Fight Lies with Truth" by Robyn Hagan Cain, blogs.findlaw.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.

  Benjamin Carson

  People

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

  Phil Plait

  Inspiration, Tired, Ignorance

  "The Mainstreaming of Crazy". Blog at Discover magazine, blogs.discovermagazine.com. September 08, 2009.

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy. Deeds uninformed by educated thought can take false directions. When we go into action and confront our adversaries, we must be as armed with knowledge as they. Our policies should have the strength of deep analysis beneath them to be able to challenge the clever sophistries of our opponents.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Clever, True Power, Expression

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• More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

  Brian Lamb

  Stupid, Opportunity, Thinking

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• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Ignorance

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• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  Walter Benjamin

  Attitude, Media, Judging

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.433, Harvard University Press

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• It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

  Adora Svitak

  Past, Ignorant, Seems

  "Do We Treat History Like a Dead Language?" by Adora Svitak, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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• If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

  Eric Alterman

  People, Judging, Peers

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• I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

  Jane Austen

  Thinking, Vanity, Female

  1815 Letter to Rev James Clarke, quoted in Justin Wintle and Richard Kenin (eds) The Dictionary of Biographical Quotation (1978).

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• It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Party, People, Tea

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Movement, Facts

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Ideas, People

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• I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.

  David Gergen

  Thinking, Issues, Judging

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• Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  True Power, Sophistry, Action

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Health, Mind, Body

  Letter to Thomas M. Randolph Jr, 6 July (1787)

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• I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Essence, Over You

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• Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.

  Alyson Noel

  Believe, People, Parent

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• Only the insane equate pain with success.

  American McGee

  Pain, Insane

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