No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don’t confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.

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 believe that it’s divine. And so it is with everything in the universe

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 and always half-understanding. He learns to believe what he does not understand, and that is a step on the road...

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 origin of aggression, the origin of language, the origin of life on earth, SETI and life on other worlds…this is...

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 participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.

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 it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them....

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 that my life is intolerable. I was born in Time, I live in Time, and do not know what Time...

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, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these...

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 river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on...

. . . 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.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence’s sake?

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Isn’t it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stored in memory. No one has ever tried to calculate this ratio, and in fact there exists no technique for doing...

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

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, except through science.

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 ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

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, that they’re frightened of – find comfort in being ignorant.”–Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

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, but are more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

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.