“The third law of magic is knowledge. Understanding brings empathy, connection, and control. Ignorance is the enemy. It is the weakness of… — Stina Leicht Copy Share Image
I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
My path to wisdom began when I stopped pretending to know things I didn't know. When I explicitly admitted to the limits… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Truth perception and reality can be to hardcore and crazy for some people to handle this is why so many live in… — Christian Vasquez Copy Share Image
The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not… — Seth Copy Share Image
They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed… — Ricky Ray Copy Share Image
When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe.… — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image
Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We've not reached the promised land. We're still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But ignorance of the law is no excuse. A person is guilty even if he breaks the law unknowingly. I shall be… — Walther Funk Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Heaven will always support your godly move; be it a righteous cause or be it a desire to see people free from… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“But even someone born and raised to be a queen can be short-sighted, maybe especially so, considering what I thought my life… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
“Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight… — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
“One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained… — Zack W. Van Copy Share Image
“She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts, well, trump his assertions, but his prejudiced views… — Jorge Ramos Copy Share Image
“A person who falsely believes he or she is knowledgeable will not seek out clarification of his or her beliefs, but rather… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Just as the light of a single candle can dispel the darkness of a thousand years, the moment we light a single… — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image