#oran

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance. ↗

— Bennett Cerf

#ignorance #ordinary #than #times #worse

Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#ignorance #knowledge #never #than

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#forward #going #good #ignorance #knowledge

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#doomed #every #growth #ignorance #knowledge

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#cuts #down #eager #every #fruit

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#before #beings #blocked #confined #continuous

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#disagreement #dreams #faith #future #hopes

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#end #ignorance #in the end #incontrovertible #malice

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ↗

— Countess of Blessington

#chains #forged #ignorance #keep #men

It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#actions #capable #consider #dishonorable #effect