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.

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 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.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist’s worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance.

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Our assumptions of playing “gods” could lead to our own ignorance.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

We don’t know why anything happens or why anything is.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can’t cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and...

Ignorance is nothing more than an epidemic of people who want to stay sick.

Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.

Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we’ll be doomed to repeat it.

Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll...

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law, religious or political liberty, or the rights of men, women and...

The Jews are an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and...

I felt as if I had more to learn than I had time on earth.

In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he’d never expected that her pain might be anything he could recognize, almost as though he believed...

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.

Sticking one’s head in the sand is a deep human impulse. Like when you feel some kind of bump or growth on the back of your neck, and your heart jumps, because, Christ, that could...

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of...

Aujourd’hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n’y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l’ancienne ignorance?

It is only when we admit our ignorance that we can hope to overcome it.

If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too...

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made...

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they...

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Don’t judge what you don’t know.

Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.