HELP!!!! WHAT DOES THIS QUOTE MEAN?

Question

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 1

when you know you know nothing

Answer 2

when you don't care/are judgemental but at the same time choose not to or dont want to be educated on a matter.

Answer 3

nothing more dangerous than knowing that you dnt know and that you're stupid and accepting it, doing nothing to change that!

Answer 4

I think it means the same as " The road to h**l is paved with good intentions."

Answer 5

The most dangerous thing is an ignorant society, or a society that chooses to be ignorant because it is the easiest thing to do (that's what he means about "conscientious stupidity").

When people don't understand something, they fear it, and when people fear something, they hate it, and when they hate something, they attack it.

=D hope that helps

Answer 6

It's another way of saying willful ignorance. Genuine ignorance - the state of not knowing - can be rectified with education, information and evidence. But when people are consciously committed to the state of ignorance, it's not only irritating and counter-productive, but it's a kind of social terrorism, with people who are in a way fighting against education and enlightenment, while being fully conscious of what they're doing.

Answer 7

He was referring to racial prejudice and it means: People who are truly ignorant or knowingly stupid are dangerous towards the development of a multicultural or multiracial country.

Answer 8

now this is indeed a great quote you got here....it is deep and true.....when one becomes ignorant,the last thing on his mind will be about others.....he would care none of all the people around him.....selfish and self-centered.....and that is just simply wrong....what martin luther meant when he refers being ignorant is a dangerous thing is that by being so,one shall pay lessor worse no attention to others at all......and we are talking about one individual here,try to imagine if there were 10 people such as this living around your neighborhood and you'll have to face them everyday.....then,the consequences is way beyond our thoughts,since it'll be terrible,won't it?

.......i leave the rest to you.....