Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.
Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose – lest we die, unbloomed.
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That’s probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We’re out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.