Ignorance Quote by Saul Bellow Download Open image “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” — Saul Bellow ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorance Illusion Intelligence Self deception
“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance. — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
“A lack of illusion is golden, and it is quite possible that creativity is the highest form of intelligence. One might further develop oneself… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It is beyond the human… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow 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