Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you….

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all..

Regarding fiction, our concern shouldn't be the author's origin (and of course I am forgetting the sales people right here), because that is actually….

There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which a….

What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.].

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted..

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of ….

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, a….

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span..

God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate..

... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its….

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it..

This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, th….

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance..

The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experi….

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population..

Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is tak….

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach..

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true kn….

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us al….

Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your iso….