Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads..

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty..

How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways..

Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: W….

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and th….

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease..

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well ….

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stup….

[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-l….

It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the plan of creation or unity of design, etc., and to think that we give an explanatio….

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are delud….

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat..

The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the w….

What ignorance there is in human minds..

Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid..

Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base sus….

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignoran….

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance..

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never li….

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is ….

Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I ….