#ignorance

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. ↗

— Will Durant

#expanding #ignorance #knowledge #mirage #our

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#ignorance #random #science #science

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ignorance #irony #humor

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #ignorance #intelligence #wisdom #humor

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#willful-ignorance #love

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#creators #dejan-stojanovic #history #ignorance #impotence

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#warbreaker #willful-ignorance #humor

. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#rape-a-love-story #truth #willful-ignorance #love

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#intelligence #opinions #stupidity #intelligence

The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. 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 Camus

#world #love