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Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.
Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.
An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.
God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.
There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other.
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.