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
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
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
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
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No doubt you’ve heard the phrase 'ignorance of the law is no excuse’, and are probably familiar with the statist meaning of… — Starchild Copy Share Image
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime.… — Carl Orff Copy Share Image
When economist William Beveridge dreamed up the postwar welfare state he wanted to fight five 'giant evils' - want, disease, ignorance, squalor… — Jeremy Kyle Copy Share Image
“{ Colonel Carr's testimony of Colonel Robert Ingersoll at his funeral } He was the boldest, most aggressive, courageous, virile, and the… — Eugene Asa Carr Copy Share Image
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own” “Stupidity has a certain charm… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“ In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it… — Ethan Allen Copy Share Image
A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world… — Madonna Ciccone 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“I recall once seeing a commentary advertised as having been written in prison without recourse to other commentaries and by reliance on… — Leslie Allen Copy Share Image
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level.… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that… — Steven Sloman Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we encounter men, even entire families, whose gross ignorance, unappealing mien or reckless habits make us wonder how their genes have… — Richard de Nooy Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
