Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell of superstition and in ignorance. He could not understand why people would not accept...

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought; the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

We have a very precise image – an image at times shameless – of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself...

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.

People have said, ‘Let’s build bridges,’ and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls of ignorance between East and West.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

His ignorance is encyclopedic

Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics have thus been joint-heirs of...

I expect what you’re not aware of would fill several books, Dursely.

I keep a human brain in my pocket, because you never know when you’ll never know.

Dare to rise, when all voices behind you say you can’t get there, ignore them and move on… it’s not about the talents and gifts you have; it’s about how wise you optimize them!

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:’Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

However modest one may be in one’s demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the...

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause...

It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies the ‘policy of prohibition’ as a major source of ignorance, fear...

I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

It seems sometimes that people take a deliberately myopic and fill their eyes with things seen microscopically in order not to see macrosopically.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest...

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate...

You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and let the poison take your leg. The same is true with...

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

I’m not talking to you.

What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.