Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a...

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

All ignorance toboggans into knowledge and trudges up to ignorance again.

The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the past ignorance which led us into our present situation, we shall always see shadows of the past in...

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous system in a way which is against its...

There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized...

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud

Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts...

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However...

Obviously, I am very ignorant, the truth is that, and it is very sad for me, but this is an advantage: the ignorant dares to more things. I am also prepared to support the ignorance and its...

those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible.

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

I tell you, stupidity, self-protective stupidity, is the fundamental sin. No man alive has a right to contentment. No man alive has a right to mental rest. No man has any right to be as stupid as...

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good,...

Nevertheless, {Jefferson} believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of...

Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't understand that. They'd think, Poke gave us garbage, and Achilles gave us raisins....

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.