Ignorance Quote by Bryan Magee Download Open image ““Ignorance is ignorance, not a licence to believe what we like.”” — Bryan Magee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance
“Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is like a disease. If you don’t fight it, it will spread until we all succumb to it.” — Sara Furlong Burr Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is never better. I may not like what I learn, but I would rather know the truth than naively give credence to something… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
“Don't disparage ignorance. If it weren't for ignorance we wouldn't have anything to learn.” — Ted Agon Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say it does… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
I have very strongly this feeling... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my astonishment that… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all. — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“I had a pupil who turned in a couple of well-crafted essays on Descartes, subjecting "cogito ergo sum" to effective and damaging criticism...This was… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“If knowledge does not liberate the self from the self, then ignorance is better than such knowledge.” — Hakim Sanai Copy Share Image
You are senile old fool, and because of your impudence, I cannot fathom how you still live! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s… — Vashti Quiroz-Vega Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
