Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and s….

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation..

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance..

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such….

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice..

You can't argue with stupidity..

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible..

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never qu….

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but be….

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what ….

The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous….

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake..

Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly..

The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ign….

A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people….

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows..

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of ….

More than once I've had discussions with persons who say things based on a misunderstanding. 'Oh you Catholics worship images.' No we don't, 'yes you….

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars..

The two pillars of 'political correctness' are, a) willful ignorance, and b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth..

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting..