Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I passionately feel that as long as we view ourselves as superior and other animals as exploitable our consciousness will remain stuck… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
[Terrorism] is formed of certain fundamental problems, [including] ignorance, poverty, and fear of others. Some people take advantage of the young and… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Only because of ignorance could he shape the world so fearlessly” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Some people believe in the majority; Others believe in authors that the majority follows. The ones in the first group believe what… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change. — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.” — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his… — Samuel Johnson 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
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.” — James Targett Copy Share Image
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“the human race will suffer another setback at the hands of its own ignorance. I, however, will not be party to such… — Dylan James Quarles Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we should abandon the whole idea of trying to make students intelligent and focus on the idea of making them less… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been.… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Being willing to expose your ignorance can be hard, until you learn the costs of not doing so.” — Nat Greene Copy Share Image
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Renounce (tyaag) if it is in your prakruti (inherent nature). Do penance (tapa) if it is in your prakruti. Chant (japa) if… — Dada Bhagwan 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
The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make… — James Fallows Copy Share Image