Top Ignorance Quotes

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Ignorance Definition

(n.) The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.

(n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.

To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's through descen...

And then this whole deal of new gods, old gods," said his friend. "You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring the on. The god of guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-r...

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)

In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.

A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics. The nature of consciousness, the workings of...

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the completest, most highly organized system of prejudices and antagonisms...

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nur...

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment.

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing...

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.

Most people do not know what they are living for. Asking a question of the purpose of their existence would be an absurd thing to do merely on this account

A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being ant...

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.