To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Problems don’t go away just because we ignore them. This includes the big problems of who, what and where we are.” — Georgi Y. Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population. — John Sculley Copy Share Image
“If ignorance invites you to lunch, turn down the offer, no matter how famished you are.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.” — Diane Medved Copy Share Image
“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press,… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance.… — Lisette Model Copy Share Image
It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level.… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
“Put simply, people tend to do what they know and fail to do that which they have no conception of. In that… — Steven Sloman Copy Share Image
“We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We, as Yale students, pride ourselves on being bright, curious and engaged citizens. We are part of an institution that aims to… — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image