Ignorance Quote by Daniel C. Dennett Download Open image ““Ignorance is a necessary condition for many excellent things.”” — Daniel C. Dennett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 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 a place where innocence is not always a virtue.” — Chriscinthia Blount Copy Share Image
“When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are doing it… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary condition for knowledge.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.” — Jay Bylsma Copy Share Image
“It is not “scientism” to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me.… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism.” — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Is this Tree of Life a God one could worship? Pray to? Fear? Probably not. But it did make the ivy twine and the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“We can now expose perhaps the most common misunderstanding of Darwinism: the idea that Darwin showed that evolution by natural selection is a procedure… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“As I have often noted, a wagon with spoked wheels doesn’t just carry grain or freight from place to place; it carries the brilliant… — Daniel C. Dennett 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
