“We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is… — Scott Woods Copy Share Image
“It is a grave responsibility that a man takes upon himself when he seeks to edit out of God's self-revelation such features… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One of the reasons people might be fallible, why we might fail to do what we try to do isignorance, that we… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“The idea is a complicated one, as the burden falls to us to differentiate this Divine Darkness from other kinds of darknesses--… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Cecilia could have told him that Mr. Fawnhope's intrepidity sprang more from a sublime unconsciousness of the risk of infection than from… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that… — Dawud Wharnsby Ali Copy Share Image
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
If you are grown up as ignorant of facts, you have a valid excuse but if you die as ignorant, None of… — Dr Zahid Khan Copy Share Image
Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Ignorance is the best punishment, you can give to your loved ones & it is the most painful experience yo can receive… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Where there is inner intent of ‘my-ness’, there is parigraha (acquisitiveness). When one says, ‘this is mine’, there is parigraha there. And… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Ignorance and understanding we're the first ones to jump in line. Out of step for what we believe in but who's left… — Sum 41 Copy Share Image
“He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psychology, if they would forget… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“New knowledge enhances an ever increasing sense of our own ignorance. The more we know, the more we know we don't know.… — Matt Baldwin Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“The marquis stared at Richard, openly amused. "What a refreshing mind you have, young man," he said. "There really is nothing quite… — Neil Gaiman 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
There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory… — Magnus Hirschfeld Copy Share Image
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of… — Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough Copy Share Image
“and I did not ask. Later I felt bad about this. I knew, even then, that whenever I nodded along in ignorance,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
