Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

I don’t know what it is; it must be aliens from outer space, visiting from another planet.” The issue here is that if you don’t know what something is, your interpretation of it should stop...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight...

A straight face is an ignorant man’s attempt to appear knowledgeable.

Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

I can fight with a real problem. But I cannot solve the ignorance. I cannot solve the illusion of your mind.

Ignorance is the most important cause of sorrow.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

I’ve demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any...

Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and...

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided...

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don’t understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won’t probably be something profound. Surely it can’t be the Principle...

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally...

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.