Tis the ignorant who boast..

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive..

There's a great difference between knowing that a thing is so, and knowing how to use that knowledge for the good of mankind. Thetrouble with a scien….

It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streamsThrough it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flo….

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger..

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women..

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does..

A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced ma….

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance….

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything..

Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge..

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down..

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance. I want nothing to do with….

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings..

I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters..

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dis….

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with kno….

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their ….

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity..