And where,” Socrates smiled, “is the universe?””The universe is well, there are theories about how it’s shaped…””That’s not what I asked. Where is it?””I don’t know – how can I answer that?””That is the point....

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

This century will be called Darwin’s century. He was one of the greatest men who ever touched this globe. He has explained more of the phenomena of life than all of the religious teachers. Write...

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

it’s impossible”!

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion;...

If ignorance is on the march, stand aside and let it pass you by.

But Catherine did not know her own advantages – did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances...

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously.

But promises based on ignorance always prove disappointing.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybodys personality and there’s just different colours to a personality.

I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on the Holy Spirit alone. I doubt whether those last two phrases are complementary....

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than...

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for....

What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?

My feet,” said Montag. “I can’t move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won’t move!””Listen. Easy now,” said the old man gently. “I know, I know. You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be....

Suppose I try saying something. What way do I have of knowing that if I say I know something I don’t really not know it? Or what way do I have of knowing that if...

People you’ve known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip’s tainted tongue whips you – they don’t show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as...

If a faithful account was rendered of man’s ideas upon the Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word Gods has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown...

The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been...

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and...

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

It’s an universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

its not a good idea to argue with ignorant people but sometime ignorance can’t be ignored

… in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights”, the only law, are whatever is willed...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done...

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

Fear, ignorance, and hatred – these are the trinity of malice.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being...

They hate us because we don’t even know why they hate us.

If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the...

She didn’t see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

I didn’t just voluntarily quit the relationship, did i? I slept and snore, didn’t i? And couldn’t even remember when you strolled away.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

The world is a different place in this new century, […]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn...

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that...

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!” schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

[…] where ignorance is bliss,’Tis folly to be wise.

Ignorance shrinks minds; perception is the compass to knowledge.