Believe Quote by Frederick Lenz

“Those ignorant "masters of our destinies" who regard humans as animals or as monstrous hybrids of natural and supernatural must be dethroned by scientific…

— Alfred Korzybski

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and…

— Anonymous

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are…

— Timothy Leary

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and…

— J. G. Ballard

We, especially those of us in depoliticized and pacified societies, need to cast a colder eye at our self-perceptions, now and in the past,…

— Pankaj Mishra

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel J Boorstin

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with science or…

— Mark Lawrence

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in…

— Dora Russell

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put…

— John Ralston Saul

The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.

— Richard Dawkins

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but…

— Daniel Boorstin