The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. — Bela Lugosi Copy Share Image
“There is no one in this world that can influence You. [However] If someone does ‘ignite’ you, then you are a ‘stove’!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse :)” — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When one believes, ‘I know it’, a veil of ignorance arises and it breaks one’s inclination towards spiritual inquiry.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“Give up on the sins of darkness in ignorance. Seek the knowledge of light of goodness” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can… — Hayley Williams Copy Share Image
“ “Faith is what’s wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don’t you follow the news?” “That’s not faith,” he says. “That’s the… — Cyma Rizwaan Khan Copy Share Image
“Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell… — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We… — Catherine Crook de Camp Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
“Illiteracy breeds more ignorance than you can ever begin to imagine.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge. — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the worst plague of all, a form of blindness that destroys the hearts of the people who hide behind it.” — David Estes Copy Share Image
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. — William Safire Copy Share Image
“There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The personal stories of disabled people suffering injustice, cruelty and ignorance are heart-breaking. — Penny Mordaunt Copy Share Image
Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The amount of things you ignore is equal to the amount of things you are afraid of. — Andrew Cervantes Copy Share Image
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image