Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of… — Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Copy Share Image
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“Humans suffered the darkness of ignorance until the serpent introduced them to the light of reason and the bright illumination of knowledge… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure. Give us the… — Frank Borman Copy Share Image
“We' (Gnani Purush) have Seen the facts as they are, in our Knowledge, and that is what I speak about. There is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Embrace your ignorance. Most people try to solve problems using the knowledge they already have about a process, but it’s what you… — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
“We might be excused our ignorance in this case, because ocean-atmosphere systems are, after all, almost inconceivably complex. Less easy to excuse… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
When an individual, a sect, a clique or a nation hates and despises another individual, sect, clique or nation, he or they… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity… — George Dana Boardman Pepper Copy Share Image
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not,… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
“Ignorance of one’s own Self’ is indeed the cause of the worldly life. No benefit is gained from one getting rid of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
I have stood by, confounded and speechless, while others have projected their stories over my narrative, each an excuse to appear helpful… — Molly Johnson Copy Share Image
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
“It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God's self-revelation such features… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image