Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!" (William Strunk) ... Why compound ignorance with inaudibility?” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“How much man likes or hates a person or a thing is dependent on how much he knows or does not know… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.” — Ashok K. Banker Copy Share Image
“He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible..… — Egyptian book of the dead Copy Share Image
“It is often idle to attempt to oppose ignorance and absurdity by such feeble instruments as truth and reason, and the wisest… — Jacob Abbot Copy Share Image
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. .… — Caroline Stevermer Copy Share Image
I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois Copy Share Image
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have… — Anna Politkovskaya Copy Share Image
“In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes. — Francis Lieber Copy Share Image