“Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Humanity is identity. All men are the same clay. No difference, here below at least, in predestination. The same darkness before, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance;… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable,… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
“I am ignorant of how I was formed and how I was born. Through a quarter of my lifetime I was absolutely… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations…What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself,… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Rise of Science Denialism The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a… — Lauren Gibbs Copy Share Image
We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about… — Hizkias Assefa Copy Share Image
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
(...) Tear down the walls, Wake up the world! Ignorance is not bliss. So fed up with second best, our time is… — Angela Gossow Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
And just as I begin to believe that all is well, there is some subtle change in the light. The room takes… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
