The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“I thought you knew that." "I didn´t." And I was starting to think that ignorance was at least somewhere in the neighborhood… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits… — Juliano Alves Copy Share Image
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much… — Plato Copy Share Image
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
Every error in human conduct must arise from ignorance in ourselves, either perpetual or temporary; and happen either because we do not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering… — David Walker Copy Share Image
There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect… — Charles Loring Brace Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make… — Giulio Tononi Copy Share Image
It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The affections are the children of ignorance; when the horizon of our experience expands, and models multiply, love and admiration imperceptibly vanish. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about… — John McQuiston II Copy Share Image
The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness; for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever known, but he was… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
An idiot is a person who lives in a very tiny place called: Idiocity. You can tolerate his idiocy for so long… — London Mond Copy Share Image
I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies,… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
