I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also...

The key point some Christians miss is that scientific ignorance about the beginning of life, or any of life’s processes, is not evidence of a god.

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer’s prideful ignorance.

When there’s a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn’t understand that. They’d think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins....

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter’s waking thoughts.

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it! We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because...

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . ‘Why do Men fear the dark?’ . . . ‘Because darkness’ he told me, ‘is ignorance made visable.’ ‘And do Men despise ignorance?’ I asked....

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns of...

There is no slavery but ignorance.

The book: an umbrella against ignorance

Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be....

If I’m a bad person, you don’t like meWell I guess I’ll make my own wayIt’s a circleA mean cycleI can’t excite you anymoreWhere’s your gavel? Your jury?What’s my offense this time?You’re not a judge...

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

Knowledge is ignorance. I know so much that I know I know so little. I used to think your name was a synonym for love, but now I just don’t know.

You don’t know what you have until you use it. You don’t have to wait until you lose it

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are...

what you don’t know will cost you.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.

Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing...

These are the words of a fool: I am happy to be a fool, for i won’t spend my time gazing at lines difficult to decipher, while my mates are drinking with glee.

The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through...

Knowledge is a rope, and you’re weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is...

Timendi causa est nescire – Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Beware the man of a single book.

The knowledgeable always tread on the path of good and the stupid because of his ignorance can never do so.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the...

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to...

I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It’s just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than anything else.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

It lent a Man a certain peace of mind… to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to...

It’s okay to not know who you are and what you want. Those with the answers are usually very happy in their own stuck-ness

…But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, “You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company;...

Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been...