Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When I examine the conclusion [on experiments with the electric light bulb experiments published in the Herald] which everyone acquainted with the… — Henry Morton Stanley Copy Share Image
The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization. — John G. Kemeny Copy Share Image
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Ignorance always makes people create an argument and it is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Every church pretends to have found the exact truth. This is the end of progress. Why pursue that which you have? Why… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Can the real Constitution be restored? Probably not. Too many Americans depend on government money under programs the Constitution doesn't authorize, and… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If the way which I have pointed out as leading to this result (i.e., power over the emotions by which the wise… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about the political process, ignorant about economics,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Part of what we have to do is not just keep ignorant people away from the polls. We have to actually change… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
