The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. One the whole, men are more good than bad; that,...

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

If God’s love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God’s plan kick...

Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título […] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación...

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see ‘the positive person’ or ‘the negative person’ in such a black and white way as many people do....

Ignorance was bliss.

What youths need to grow is the truth that will set them free from inimical lies and limiting ignorance

Nobody can make you feel ignorant but you—the you from before, the one who skipped school and slept in class. By you, of course, I mean me.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the...

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to...

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out “right to know,” and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no...

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose...

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what...

If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing...

Take a deep breath when you see the unpleasant people. The arrogant, the racist, the know-it-all and the mouthful of nonsense. Don’t curse or blame them because it’s their nature and perhaps have not grown...

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance

Ignorance is not linear, it’s exponential.

If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain,...

It’s a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones...

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it’s climax.

I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.

But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it’s being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it’s that much more of an insult,...

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you…and then, the worse things get.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

Ignorance as a deliberate choice, can be used to reinforce prejudice and discrimination.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

I always have my reasons, even when I don’t know what they are.

The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: ‘Swine! Swine! Swine!’, and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.

It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand...

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Until we find an antidote to our ignorance, our purpose shall always be hindered by ignorance

It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.

Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone.

So what I had believed to be nothing to me was simply my entire life. How ignorant one is of oneself.

Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of the brain, the...

We can’t see and we can’t reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge

Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active...

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Ignorance is fatal.

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do...