To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre:… — Irvine Welsh 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
Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Better be unborn than unthought, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. — Jessej Joseh Copy Share Image
“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease… — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“If ignorance is on the march, stand aside and let it pass you by.” — George Scott Wilkie Copy Share Image
The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.” — Richard de Crespigny Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Without a measure of anger against injustice, a person, a society or a whole nation would have to live perpetually under the… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“ Ingersoll could not understand the mind of those who, once having been told the truth, preferred to remain under the spell… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Ignorance will often fade given time, you have to work hard to remain stupid…” — James Qualls Copy Share Image
Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
