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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. — Bertrand Russell

Every human being was a victim of something, whether it was desire, addiction, ignorance, or faith. — Lee Thomas

Man will destroy what man fears! — Nadina Boun

Books were links that spanned such missing human bonds or even times of savagery and its resulting ages of ignorance. — Terry Goodkind

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance. — Baris Gencel

Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance. — Christina Engela

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. — G.K. Chesterton

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance — Lewis Thomas

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride. — J.A. Redmerski

Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. — Amartya Sen

Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place. — Amit Abraham

Science is the human endeavor to elevate the self and the society from the darkness of ignorance into the light of wisdom. — Abhijit Naskar

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. — Anthony De Mello

Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life. — Stephen Hawking

.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity. — Devdutt Pattanaik

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin

It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering. — Kat Lahr

In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair. — Dalai Lama XIV

When the human being says:
'It is not true ... '
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it. — Idries Shah

Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance. — Harold S. Kushner

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin

Human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance. — Julia McNair Wright

the paradox of human ignorance is the most intriguing paradox of nature — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human — Kim Stanley Robinson

The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice. — Tom Feiling

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. — Harry Lorayne

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life. — Woodrow Wilson

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? — Carl Sagan

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Ignorance and fear create the gods, enthusiasm and deceit adorn them, and human weakness worships them. — Graham McNeill

There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep. — Saul Bellow

[U]nder even the most sincere human declarations there remained unarticulated layers of despair, fury, lies, and ignorance. — Sandor Marai

What ignorance there is in human minds. — Ovid

Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can make — Loknath

Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options? — Janny Wurts

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense. — H.L. Mencken

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. — Sam Harris

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance. — George Takei

Whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion. — Henri Barbusse

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings. — B.J. Novak

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. — Sam Harris

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. — Isaac Newton

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. — Maya Angelou

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. — Robert H. Goddard

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance. — Lama Surya Das

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. — Glenn Beck

Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment. — Saurabh Sharma

I am not a snob, because I know opulence doesn't stamp out ignorance and unhappiness. — Sarina Bowen

Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things. — Giambattista Vico