Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama XIVI was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.
I wish every grad student had that attitude.
Tags: knowledge ignorance heroism
She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: humanity ignorance criticism thoughts
Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.
Jim ButcherTags: history ignorance harry-dresden
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.
Daniel C. DennettNo one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.
Robert G. IngersollTags: science ignorance unknown incomprehensible complex god-of-the-gaps
It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)
Ron RashTags: science philosophy darkness ignorance enlightenment sight
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter CronkiteTags: intelligence libraries education ignorance
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem van LoonTags: education society willful-ignorance ignorance hendrick-van-loon
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?
Haruki MurakamiTags: ignorance vanity narcissism pretentiousness
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