Quotes About Ignorance

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

Religion is very enlightening - to those who don't understand it.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Miracles' rely on their observer's ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer's failure to notice the observed's defects.

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Most of the world goes through the motions of life in general, blissfully unaware of anything beyond their lives.

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw -- Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.