Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England..

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't ….

Without [hope and] confidence in a cause, there is no action. Ignorance may be enlightened, superstition wiped out; intolerance may become tolerant, ….

My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can conv….

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religi….

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance..

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the mass….

I'm trying to make people more alert that mere acceptance isn't a good enough indicator that something is ethical. You actually need to stop and thin….

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it..

The Gods are unkind and deny us knowledge of what the future holds.

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy..

Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, soli….

It is better to confess ignorance than provide it..

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousn….

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance h….

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information..

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during ….

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm..

Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish ap….

Physical processes alone will never completely explain the existence of the universe , life , and consciousness . Religious answers are just wishful ….

Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight things about golf two months ago….