Fools hate knowledge.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Ignorant people often resent learning because it challenges their existing views or comfort.
- In plain terms
- People who do not want to know things hate knowledge.
- What can you take from it?
- Fear of change can make people reject learning.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do some people resist learning?
- When does knowledge feel threatening?
Another view
Not all resistance to knowledge stems from foolishness.
More from Joseph Heller
If the chance ever comes to you to fall in love, grab it, every time. You might always live to regret it, but you won't find anything to beat it, and you won't…
Permalink to quote #64 Forever goes quick.
Permalink to quote #66 God is a murderer, imagine that. I told you I had the best story in the Bible, didn't I? I have always known that He was. Sooner or later He murders us all, do…
Permalink to quote #63
Related quotes
I speak from ignorance. Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.
Nathaniel TarnNathaniel Tarn quote #1 But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.
Horace MannHorace Mann quote #4 When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows some…
SocratesSocrates quote #6