Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

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...

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

I’m not talking to you.

What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest...

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

At first, they’ll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they’ll dislike you.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

You can’t argue with a stupid, ignorant person, no matter how long you stand in the mirror.

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

The Ladies of the Sacred Heart hung a thousand veils between their little charges and reality. Thérèse despised them for confounding virtue with ignorance.

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called ‘educated classes’ are to this day in...

The abyss in which I live hasn’t the wit to save itself from savage ignorance, and I now feel assured that I am not in the company of my own species (at least, I hope...

Racism springs from ignorance.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Knowledge is a dangerous thing. But ignorance is no protection.

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu’elles étaient inconnues.

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the...

Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.

It has been said at various points in history that the current sum of humanknowledge is but a fraction of that which was once known, yet now is lost.Likewise, it is argued with simple mathematics...

You can’t discuss the ocean with a well frog – he’s limited by the space he lives in. You can’t discuss ice with a summer insect – he’s bound to a single season.

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of Religion, that we...

…it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of...

There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and...

It’s better to shut up and give the impression that you’re stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

Ah, I see. You don’t know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Do you mean ter tell me,” he growled at the Dursleys, “that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin’ abou’—about ANYTHING?”Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks...

You say that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world? Well I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so.

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.