His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink… — Davi Kopenawa Yanomami Copy Share Image
“The church needs to arise not just against total and absolute ignorance, the church also needs to arise against half-truth or falsehood,… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness… — Plato Copy Share Image
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
An eagerness and zeal for dispute on every subject, and with every one, shows great self-sufficiency, that never-failing sign of great self-ignorance. — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The most difficult task, phase-out over the next 20-25 years of coal use that does not capture COâ‚‚, is Herculean, yet feasible… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“The commonest error of the gifted scholar, inexperienced in teaching, is to expect pupils to know what they have been told. But… — Edward Lee Thorndike Copy Share Image
Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b)… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
“The main fault is our own, which proves that no one else is guilty. What is the mystery behind this? If Soul… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
“...Nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“How is digging a hole part of the process of getting out of one? The fact is, the people who can answer… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“As much resolution the mind finds, it (mind) will come to an end by that much and when it finds complete resolution,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase… — Comte De Buffon Copy Share Image
The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be… — Hamid Drake Copy Share Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would… — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason,… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I would like break to the walls… — Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Copy Share Image
“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation.… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is… — Hinton Rowan Helper Copy Share Image
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
