Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor...

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit.

It is neither just the religious, the spiritual, the power-hungry, the evil, the ignorant, the corrupt, the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, the Jew, nor the atheist that makes a hypocrite, but being...

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

The belief is indeed important, but ignorance generated from it, no.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity; the type...

all appears to change when we change

Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides....

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments of our time.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we...

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!

For myself, I wouldn’t have lifted a finger to own a Rolex, a pair of Nikes or a BMW Z3; in fact, I had never succeeded in identifying the slightest difference between designer goods and...

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

Ignorance follows knowledge, not the other way around.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the world as-is, which is more than can be said for the vast populace.

Our love is doomed from our first kiss. Until you have to look it in the eyes, ignorance is bliss.

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let...

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that,...

POSITIVISM, n. A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.

Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the...

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

And just like that, as if I hadn’t said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about the sinful nature the Jews possessed when killing their Lord Jesus. I didn’t know if I...

When the human being says:’It is not true…’He may mean:’I don’t know about it, so I think it is untrue.’Or:’I don’t like it.

It’s possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.

The reason there’s so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.

I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself oppressed by it. In my opinion every individual is hampered by it. It...

Look around you, he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. Not a one of them even has an inkling of the things that are possible in this world, and what’s worse is that...

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.