The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It's true that a dangerous combination of certainty and ignorance often shows up around sex and consent on campus. People on all… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Just as full sunlight completely dispels all darkness but even a few rays provide a measure of light, so, if we complete… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he… — Charles Hapgood Copy Share Image
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I can't admit of an old boy of a God who takes walks in his garden with a cane in his hand,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people… — Giles Duley Copy Share Image
Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
“It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Human creatures, living in the circle of their intimates and friends, are too apt to remain in ignorance of the comments and… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
A black woman carried you in her womb for 9 months, then she raised you for 18 years, and now you're out… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Informing people about the world's problems opens up the possibility to address them and change them. Anything else is simply willful ignorance.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Bhaav (intent) created through agnan (knowledge with ignorance of the True Self) has to be filtered through Gnan (Knowledge of the True… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Bondage of worldly life cannot tie us down; such is the knowledge of Vitrag (Enlightened One). Our ‘Self’ is such that it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image