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.

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

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

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.

Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

There are those who know and those who don’t know. And for every ten thousand who don’t know there’s only one who knows. That’s the miracle of all time–the fact that these millions know so...

We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue–or they win! No, when you become smarter and...

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the...

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

Evidentemente, soy muy ignorante, la verdad es esa, y es muy triste para mi, pero esto supone una ventaja: El ignorante osa a más cosas. También estoy preparado para soportar todavía un poco la ignorancia...

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

All things can be achieved but not through all means, some means are not proper

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

When people give you disappointment, don’t worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.

There are all kinds of ignorance in the world. Education, learning to read and write, doesn’t necessarily give us knowledge. We have to learn to use our minds to see what is really happening.

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there’s a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

A rat in its stealing behavior may manage to steal gold jewelry and to make a nest with it but that does not in anyway qualify the rat to be a millionaire though it’s gold...

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses – mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps...

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there’s only one way to connect such similarities, and that’s through descent with modification driven by the Darwinian mechanism. But within a design-theoretic...

At Gabriel College there was a very holy object on the high altar of the Oratory, covered with a black velvet cloth… At the height of the invocation the Intercessor lifted the cloth to reveal...

A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of...

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under...

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more ‘unique.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its...

Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears....

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms in existence. Everywhere in...

There is no means by which men so powerfully elude their ignorance, disguise it from themselves and from others as by words

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

I’d tried to straighten him out, but there’s only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.

Osama, baah!” Bashir roared.”Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never...

Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size,...

Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance; capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose...

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m...