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.

Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin’s photograph, I think to myself: You’ve finally done it. It took four generations, but you’ve finally goddamned done it. Gotten that war against reason and uppity secularists you always wanted....

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of...

Much of our Fear, is based in the fear of loss. We fear losing our own lives. We fear death for our family and friends. We fear the loss of our means of survival. In...

Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Fear melts like ice when we allow love’s divine light to shine upon our ignorance.

If it’s not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I’m interested in but don’t yet know. It’s when they explain things to me I know...

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of...

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don’t hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us…

New Rule: Just because a country elects a smart president doesn’t make it a smart country. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked on CNN if I thought Sarah Palin could get elected president,...

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

Nina matatizo ya kiafya: Udadisi wa hali ya juu wa kiakili.

When I visited George Bernard Shaw, in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me to tell him all that I knew about Ingersoll. During the course...

You’re just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day… The owners of this country know the truth… it’s called the American...

You empower ignorance if you as teacher hide yourself among the students because you know less and give less… Don’t hide your identity, make it a reality!

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with any order, religious or otherwise, which does not...

The people need to know that the people need to know. And I’m just the man to let them know that they need to know. However, what they need to know, I do not know.

I didn’t know that there was a thin line between ignorance and arrogance.

My cat is ignorant of the law. But then so am I. That means I am not his master, because we are both slaves.

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

It was clear to me that it wouldn’t matter what I did – they would never truly appreciate me or learn what I had to offer. They were far beyond fickle – they were insensible,...

People don’t want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you’re a teacher you’re in a constant battle with mildly...

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our...

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.

It was just done out of ignorance.

I knew I needed to tell this story … and discovered the depth of my ignorance in doing so.

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, ‘Our kingdom is not as the kingdom of this world. Our life on earth is but a...

In the first stage of boyhood, he is led from ignorance and ‘innocence’ into the world of knowledge, when he is accepted as a pupil by a Guru (Preceptor). After that, he has to serve...

I can’t blame most people if they don’t read a lot. Because they have their own preferences. If they find an article long, they won’t even finish. So as to say, I am glad I...

…”stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information that he or she can put out. ‘Stupidity’ is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social...

hypothesis” means ‘guess,’ people will inspect it more carefully before accepting it.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance – almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge...

I don’t know.” That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor and tyrant.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate...

To some perhaps it may appear a little strained to place this last-mentioned form of attachment on a level of importance with the others, and such persons may be inclined to deny to the homogenic...