#ignorance

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance. ↗

— Hendrik Willem Van Loon

#hendrick-van-loon #ignorance #society #willful-ignorance #education

Ignorance is fatal. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #fatal #ignorance #knowledge #ray

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#knowledge #death

Place a weapon in the hands of Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance You've created innocent deaths That wasn't neccasary ↗

— R.K. Cowles

#death

[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#religion #willful-ignorance #design

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#ignorance #intelligence #libraries #education

The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation, and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be believed only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called faith. ↗

— Robert G. Ingersoll

#bliss #christ #eternity #faith #ignorance

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand. ↗

— James Targett

#god #ignorance #knowledge #marvels #universe

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. ↗

— George Gillespie

#error #ignorance #lives #man #man lives

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#forgiveness #i #i believe #i believe in #ignorance