History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves...

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil — or else an absolute ignorance.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.

Arrogant and ignorant go together like peanut butter and jelly. Would you like a sandwich?

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.

[When asked by a student if he believes in any gods]Oh, no. Absolutely not… The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don’t have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to...

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice...

Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book...

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don’t want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

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.

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

People who have woken up now to some harsh reality of life may often hide their ignorance by innocently saying that it’s a new trend without realizing the fact of its existence since ancient times.

Mind is absolutely competent to harvest anything, it is up to us what we wish to produce!! Illusion, Ignorance or Awareness.

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has...

Brendan knew about the truth. In most cases, it was just a matter of deciding whether you wanted to look it in the face or live with the comfort of ignorance and lies. And ignorance...

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 brought on by none other than ourselves.

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.

Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t...

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

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.

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...

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