“To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with… — Paula Brackston Copy Share Image
“Clever people, people who are driven to succeed, know what they do not know, and try to reduce their ignorance using their… — David K. Mullaly Copy Share Image
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what? Over the "system", over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What we will call beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boated so-called knowledge… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also with complexity: how much you have… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“In all his imaginings, he had never envisioned her crying. He knew that her son had died, but he'd never expected that… — Bebe Moore Campbell Copy Share Image
“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
“build ever-deeper knowledge about how to manage the systems for doing our work, converting inevitable up-front ignorance into knowledge.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
“if one lived a moral life, was mindful of one’s actions, and developed wisdom, he taught, it was possible to dispel ignorance,… — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
“If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We have to… — Jackie Viramontez Copy Share Image
“education is a tender garden, whereas ignorance is weeds. History—the old history—was full of examples proving that, when civilizations fell, learning was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I run into a lot of ignorance and stupidity. It gets really frustrating, but you have to take yourself out of it… — Carmen Carrera Copy Share Image
“I can see that you spoke in ignorance, and I bitterly regret that I should have been so petty as to take… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“From where have kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) come into existence? From vishay (sensual pleasure). It is not the fault of vishay, but it is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“While religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction, it is… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel… — M.P. Sharma Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
“People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking… — Blaise Pascal 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
One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report… — Jim Garrison Copy Share Image
