Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Helen Keller

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

Helen Keller

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

George Eliot

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.

George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

George Eliot

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

Jaron Lanier

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

Jane Rule

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Euripides

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Ernestine Rose

Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.

Euvin Naidoo

George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.

Frank Zappa

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

Frank Zappa

Let's not be too tough on our own ignorance. It's the thing that makes America great. If America weren't incomparably ignorant, how could we have tolerated the last eight years?

Frank Zappa

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Frank Herbert

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

Frank Herbert

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

George Henry Lewes

Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

Guru Nanak

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Greg Mortenson

You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.

Jim Butcher

Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!

Jim Butcher

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

H. P. Lovecraft

It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.