Biology Quote by Derrick Jensen

It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.

— Richard Dawkins

I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know…

— Elizabeth Hurley

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

— Barry Lopez

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can…

— Masha Gessen

We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for…

— William R. Brody

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

— Allan Bloom

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

— Vincent Massey

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one…

— Sting

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that…

— Tom Stoppard

“Ignorance is not merely a deficiency of knowledge but, in addition, it positively apprehends reality in a distinctive way. And being a distorted mode…

— Stephen Batchelor

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

— Lierre Keith