Civilization Quote by Allan Bloom

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to…

— Allan Bloom

How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.

— Anonymous

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds…

— Gustave Le Bon

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

— Paul Valery

To pretend that civilization can exist without destroying its own landbase and the landbases and cultures of others is to be entirely ignorant of…

— Derrick Jensen

It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves

— Edward Bond

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

— Ne-Yo

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

— Scott Adams

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

— Anonymous

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in…

— Robert Green Ingersoll