As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who starts badmouthing Latino immigrants is not only a racist but ignorant. You need to refer them to what was written… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“The ignorant person is completely unaware of one's mistakes. The wise person acknowledges and learns from one's mistakes. The enlightened person realizes… — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
A sympathetic parent might see the spark of consciousness in a baby's large eyes and eagerly accept the popular claim that babies… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause,… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger Copy Share Image
We find the vast majority of people in every country believing that there will be a time when this world will become… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
See that girl? She's starving herself because she thinks you'll notice her if she's skinnier. She's cutting herself because she's cyber bullied.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have a friend who says he does not believe in conspiracy, look him straight in the eye… — Texe W Marrs Copy Share Image
Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control… — Doc Holliday Copy Share Image
Why is it that the less intelligence people have, the more spiritual they are? They seem to fill all the vacant, ignorant… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
By realizing that we are ignorant of the most important things, we realize at the same time that the most important thing… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But I haven't found that to be the… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you’re aware of the depths of your own ignorance. As Mother… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the… — Huey Long Copy Share Image
“My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper.… — Mary Badham Copy Share Image
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities… — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of… — Peter of Blois Copy Share Image
If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image