But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a long time it… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is within the hearts of people a deep desire for peace on earth, and they would speak for peace if they… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroyus. A nation that… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
“I have been studying for forty years, which is to say forty wasted years; I teach others yet am ignorant of everything;… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Another of the qualities of science is that it teaches the value of rational thought, as well as the importance of freedom… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
What are we? Well, if you are asking me a question, I will answer you. Here it is: we are this country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Peter had declared his assured faith, that he was the Son of God. Now it was natural to observe, how it was… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness.… — Arno C. Gaebelein Copy Share Image
What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Sticking one's head in the sand is a deep human impulse. Like when you feel some kind of bump or growth on… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I would not even attempt to do a history of world television. I did a half dozen years where I was a… — David Bianculli 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
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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
I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
Ignorance, which is contented and clumsy, will produce what is imperfect, but not offensive. But ignorance dis contented and dexterous, learning what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they… — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
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