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...

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

Ignorance. It claws, tears, and eventually destroys the threads that hold humanity together. These people all around me saying not this, not that…Their tongues untied with the rudeness they fear not to speakTo those they...

As she turned left to the gateway, it occurred to her that swimming was only one of a very large number of things she had no idea what to do. Peter had been right to...

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds,...

one great irony about ignorance it that one may do wrong things greatly and great things wrongly; knowingly or unknowingly

To be ignorant as God is ignorant, knowing only what is real.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?” asked Milo.”Much worse,” he said longingly. “But I don’t live here. I’m from a place very far away called Context.

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success...

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know…

How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which...

Fatally, the term ‘barbarian’ is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the vandal, the status denier, the iconoclast, who refuses to acknowledge any...

It’s a fact that people are afraid of what they don’t understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think.”That’s sad,’ said Montag, quietly, ‘because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever...

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Sometimes it’s good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one’s headstone is this: ‘He never knew what hit him’.

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....

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

John has a narrow mind. For him, neither the beauty nor the prosperity of the city of Ephesus is worth a second glance. Ephesus was situated at the end of the Silk Road from China...

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.