A lot of my reputation is a product of exaggeration and ignorance. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Ignorance, not sin, causes suffering. LIFT THE VEIL." ~ Lilli in the Great Theater” — Karen Clark Copy Share Image
The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
From exertion come wisdom and purity; from sloth ignorance and sensuality. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the person living in ignorance and the person living in darkness.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of tolerance for people like me... To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power. — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“That which does not allow one to enter into agnan (worldly knowledge) is called Gnan [Knowledge of the Real Self, the Soul].… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image