Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.” — Ted Agon 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
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.” — Gene L. Coon Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou 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
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.… — Polybius Copy Share Image
“In a world lost in the darkness of ignorance, deception and confusion, a self-educated human being with integrity is the Light.” — Gavin Nascimento Copy Share Image
“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“It is a type of science originally advocated 2,400 years ago by the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, who said, “There are, in… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still… — Oliver Markus Malloy 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
