Ignorance Quotes

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science. — George Bernard Shaw
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the… — Lytton Strachey
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. — Louis D. Brandeis
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. — Saadi
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it. — Heraclitus
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its… — Thomas Paine
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. — Thucydides
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so. — Mark Twain
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps… — Deepak Chopra
To know the mighty works of God, to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power; to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful workings of His laws,… — Nicolaus Copernicus
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society,… — Jeremy Collier
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives… — Rajneesh
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. — Ron Reagan
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we… — Will Durant

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