A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand. — Rush Copy Share Image
Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
What clinical lectures I will give in heaven, demonstrating the ignorance of doctors! — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Realize that saying all black men are the same is just as ignorant as saying that all black women are the same.… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think… — Billy Bob Thornton 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
