Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. ….

Science reveals where religion conceals. Where religion purports to explain, it actually resorts to tautology. To assert that "God did it" is no more….

In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to kno….

But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the arms of the right-wing populist….

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was spark….

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge..

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion..

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment..

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls th….

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet..

The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state..

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance m….

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned ….

True deliverance of man is the deliverance from Avidya i.e. ignorance. It is not in destroying anything that is positive and real, for that cannot be….

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance.

We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as….

Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person does….

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn..

The problem that is to solve urgently is the ignorance of the people..

I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, i….

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their….