“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. —Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may… — John B. Goodenough Copy Share Image
“In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or… — Sri Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“Though I would say this: if you are very fortunate, you will live long enough in this life to achieve a complete… — Nigel McDowell Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older,… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The most common cause of failure in life is ignorance of one's own True Will, or of the means by which to… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit… — Baron D. Holbach Copy Share Image
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think to myself.. People can't really be that ignorant can they? No, no seriously there is no way anyone can… — Maher Hammad Copy Share Image
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre:… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
“Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.” — Rachel Hilary Brown Copy Share Image
That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of the fish we eat is black market, fished in violation of international laws. Our ignorance makes us unwilling partners… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
We enjoy a growing awareness and literacy around the symptoms of and remedies for mental illness. Thanks to brave public figures and… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“build ever-deeper knowledge about how to manage the systems for doing our work, converting inevitable up-front ignorance into knowledge.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“if one lived a moral life, was mindful of one’s actions, and developed wisdom, he taught, it was possible to dispel ignorance,… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We have to… — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
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