Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Ayn Rand

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Edgar Mitchell

Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.

Edgar Mitchell

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

Edgar Mitchell

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Eduardo Galeano

Schools teach ignorance.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

Gerard De Nerval

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Herbert V. Prochnow

Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance.

Herman Kahn

I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.

Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Henry David Thoreau

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Henry David Thoreau

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Henry David Thoreau

The only sin in the world is ignorance.

Jeremy Bentham

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Ernst Haeckel

It is, however, a most astonishing but incontestable fact, that the history of the evolution of man as yet constitutes no part of general education. Indeed, our so-called "educated classes" are to this day in total ignorance of the most important circumstances and the most remarkable phenomena which Anthropogeny has brought to light.

Erwin Schrodinger

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

Florence King

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Fidel Castro

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been,

Fidel Castro

The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

Fernand Braudel

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

Henry Miller

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.

Henri Barbusse

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.