Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.

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.

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much...

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch – on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting...

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

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.

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.

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;...