No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

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.

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.

We can’t see and we can’t reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge

Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active...

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Ignorance is fatal.

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do...

Place a weapon in the hands ofGreed, hatred, especially of ignoranceYou’ve created innocent deathsThat wasn’t neccasary

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything; this state of affairs fills my soul with so much humiliation and disgust...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate; the more they hate the more you grow.

This is the eternal challenge with ignorance — ignorance can’t see itself.

Neznanje – nasmeši se Regis – nije opravdanje za nepromišljeno delanje. Kad se nešto ne zna, kad čovek sumnja, onda je dobro da se posavetuje…

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the ‘conditioning’ of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the...

. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity.

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don’t have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to...

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

I always have my reasons, even when I don’t know what they are.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’, and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand...

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Until we find an antidote to our ignorance, our purpose shall always be hindered by ignorance

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.

Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the...

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation,...

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept...

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves – people who refuse to find out what something is about,...

People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native counties…Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth,...

Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.

Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark.

…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.