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.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

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, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice...

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 puddle of broken eggs and tomato juice, you are ready to shout out, ‘You idiot! What’s wrong with you? Are...

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.

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 of ignorance that allows people to self-identify as Christians (or any other religion) without having first researched the Holy Scriptures...

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. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed .

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 eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world – and what is to become of...

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 non-designer goods. In the eyes of the world, I was clearly wrong. I was aware of this: I was in...

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 us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind...

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

The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it?

When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Those, who get attracted by ignorance and superficial worldly pleasures meet their ends early.

The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over...

Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

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 was hearing this right because I had become so intoxicated, but I couldn’t believe that anyone would talk about religion...

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 exacts taxes from production. It creates tariffs, which prevent free exchange. It stands ever for the status quo and traditional...

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 none of them would listen if you attempted to enlighten them. They want to believe that magic is nothing but...

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.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough...

There is nothing better than not knowing.

Miracles’ rely on their observer’s ignorance. ‘Perfection’ relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.