No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

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.

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

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

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

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics have thus been joint-heirs of...

I expect what you’re not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

I keep a human brain in my pocket, because you never know when you’ll never know.

Dare to rise, when all voices behind you say you can’t get there, ignore them and move on… it’s not about the talents and gifts you have; it’s about how wise you optimize them!

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:’Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

However modest one may be in one’s demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the...

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause...

It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies the ‘policy of prohibition’ as a major source of ignorance, fear...

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest...

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate...

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with...

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

People have said, ‘Let’s build bridges,’ and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

His ignorance is encyclopedic

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

You can’t argue with a stupid, ignorant person, no matter how long you stand in the mirror.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called ‘educated classes’ are to this day in...

The abyss in which I live hasn’t the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I am not in the company of my own species (at least, I hope...

Racism springs from ignorance.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu’elles étaient inconnues.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the...

Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.