Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!
Robert G. IngersollTags: knowledge religion faith thought ignorance myth action superstition skepticism eden garden-of-eden tree-of-knowledge
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: prejudice ignorance tolerance august-1914
Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessary
condition for knowledge.
Tags: certainty knowledge ignorance epistemology
I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of
divine vanity.
Tags: philosophy ignorance vanity christ divinity
I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
William GoldmanTags: love ignorance devotion codes
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
Milan KunderaTags: man men willful-ignorance ignorance resonsibility
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest HemingwayTags: innocence ignorance wickedness
Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"
Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad.
"I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.
Tags: humor ignorance math cluelessness
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.
Robert G. IngersollTags: reason insanity eternity absurd hell ignorance doctrine bliss infamous
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Albert CamusTags: goodness ignorance existentialism camus the-plague
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