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...

People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their own.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They...

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused “metaphysical” anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act.It was...

Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.

The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the Universe at last, and in every century...

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

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

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.

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...