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

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...

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.

On the Kite, the situation was being ‘workshopped’. This is the means by which people who don’t know anything get together to pool their 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.