Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own… — William Law Copy Share Image
“Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe,… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
“Amal, you look stunned," said Mrs. Melchor. "Have you been struck by lightning between classes?" "Yes," she said. "The lightning of ignorance."… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk… — Alexei Maxim Russell Copy Share Image
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“John has a narrow mind. For him, neither the beauty nor the prosperity of the city of Ephesus is worth a second… — Gilles Quispel Copy Share Image
“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In terms of the ego, most religions teach in some way that all of us must die before we die, and then… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us,… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“Any frontal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession: their… — Hendrik Wilam van Loon Copy Share Image
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“One has proceeded according to people’s understanding therefore he is bound (to the worldly life). The one who proceeds according to Gnani’s… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the enemy not just of our democratic system but also of our moral integrity as a nation, as the land… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
The failure of the family court system in America is a national scandal. Sadly, the mainstream media, whether out of ignorance or… — Garland Waller Copy Share Image
“Hatem said: You are not safe in this world unless you possess four characteristics - (1) overlook the ignorance of man (2)… — Imam Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“To heal the pain of another is to heal my own pain. Yet, some of the greatest pain that I can experience… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
“It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Theres a difference between being humble & being gullible. Those who cant distinguish live a sad life of arrogant ignorance & blind devotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ideal conception, necessitated by ignorance of the person so imagined, often results in an incipient love, which otherwise would never have existed.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantaneously: in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image