“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make people more alert that mere acceptance isn't a good enough indicator that something is ethical. You actually need… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“And just like that, as if I hadn't said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about the sinful nature… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
“To say both, 'I am doing' and 'I am Knowing' is known as gross ignorance of the Self. You ('Chandubhai') are actually… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky 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
I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The world, as we know it, is coming to an end. The world as the center of the universe, the world divided… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Power helpeth our infirmity in prayer. The Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Life ends… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“And in these four things, opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear, and taking of things casual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow-- it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are part of the world creation, and we ourselves create nothing. Our knowledge allows us to make use of all the… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
“But now, to deny the change requires a wilful ignorance since, if you observe bodies clothed in steel flowing over highways, or… — Eugene Lim Copy Share Image
... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics),… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“No one has been able to attain the state of ‘Jitendriya-Jin’ (one who has attained victory over all senses) through the medium… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
