#oran

And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those who profess to know things of which they are ignorant. ↗

— René Descartes

#ignorance #knowledge #science

Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi! ↗

— One Direction

#liam-payne #louis-tomlinson #niall-horan #one-direction #zayn-malik

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#men #noble #men

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hype #ignorance #indoctrination #influence #power

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ↗

— Socrates

#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. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#ignorance

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#politics #psychology #revolution #ignorance

Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important ↗

— Rachel Caine

#monica-morrell #morganville-vampires #ignorance

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#knowledge #ignorance

Well, not in this case. He reached into the Inquisitor and he twisted..." Clary shuddered. "There was a lot of blood." "Like a special bonus for you," Jace said to Simon. Simon ignored this. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #simon-lewis #ignorance