Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Most causes of ignorance can be overcome, if people are willing to learn. Nothing, however, can overcome the toxic confluence of arrogance,… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“This woman was full of so much ignorance it was almost like she wanted to stay that way. She saw what she… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners,… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
“Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one’s ignorance in the face… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen,” said Earl Lavender, with perfect complacence, “it becomes you to make a charge of madness against me. I told my friend… — John Davidson Copy Share Image
“The case for individual freedom rests chiefly on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“And I remember in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood, in other parts of the world, having occasion… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I… — Larry Eisenberg Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
People will judge you based on what they've heard about you, but that's their problem not yours. If they want to believe… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do in your worldly life, is all worldly vision. Until the line of demarcation (between the real and relative vision)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“Sure, Mom. They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
“The one who attains the 'Akram' path, will have his spiritual work done. (On this path), you have neither been made to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“There is no credulity more blind, no ignorance more childish, that that of the sage who tries to measure “heaven and earth… — Alastair Gunn Copy Share Image
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image