“It's not difficult to appear bright, don't worry. The main thing is never to show obvious ignorance of anything. You prevaricate, avoid… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This world, overall, has forgotten what they were made of, forgotten their power; we live in ignorance – a hell. If we… — Jamie Magee Copy Share Image
“All men, reaching back to Adam in the Garden, plead Ignorance as their defence; when, if we were but honest, we would… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“Stay Stupid The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The one who has confidence (trust) in his own self, he can get everything in this world. But one does not have… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“To my fellow free thinkers fear not the persecution of the disenlightened for their ignorance is a cancer of the mind. Continue… — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“The evil that is in the world comes out of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellectual cowardice is only one of the problems of the academic community. Fort rubbed their noses in the swill generated by their… — John Keel Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We can't plead ignorance, only indifference. Those alive today are the generations that came to know better. We have the burden and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“You are responsible. It is not about external redemption or temptation. That is the greatest disadvantage of ignorance: to make you think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even those who have desired to work out a completely positive philosophy have been philosophers only to the extent that, at the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“The ‘Self’ (Purush) and ‘Relative-Self’ (Prakruti), are two separate things. Self (Purush) is the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and ‘Relative-Self’ (prakruti) is ‘pudgal’… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace. But it's a small link. There are lots of other issues: apartheid , vivisection,… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
... I am not afraid of priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring… — William Carey Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Religion asks followers to believe in things nobody can see, however, animal activists ask people to see things they can prove. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
