Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Bertrand Russell

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.

Japanese Proverb

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Lindsay Anderson

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Willie Wells

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

Bertrand Russell

Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.

David Hayes

He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story.

Art Buchwald

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods. Apply them.

Aristotle

If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited.

Aristotle

Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'

Aristotle

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

Aldous Huxley

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

Albert Einstein

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.