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 that his future can only be triumphant?
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.
France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.
