There Are Two Threats To Reason, The Opinion That One Knows The Truth About The Most Important Things And The Opinion That There Is No Truth About Them. Both Of These Opinions Are Fatal To Philosophy; The First Asserts That The Quest For Truth Is Unnecessary, While The Second Asserts That It Is Impossible. The Socratic Knowledge Of Ignorance, Which I Take To Be The Beginning Point Of All Philosophy, Defines The Sensible Middle Ground Between Two Extremes.
But, If The Knowledge Of The Occult Powers Of Nature Opens The Spiritual Sight Of Man, Enlarges His Intellectual Faculties, And Leads Him Unerringly To A Profounder Veneration For The Creator, On The Other Hand Ignorance, Dogmatic Narrow-mindedness, And A Childish Fear Of Looking To The Bottom Of Things, Invariably Leads To Fetish-worship And Superstition.
Degrade First The Arts If You'd Mankind Degrade. Hire Idiots To Paint With Cold Light & Hot Shade: Give High Price For The Worst, Leave The Best In Disgrace, And With Labours Of Ignorance Fill Every Place.
For Me, 9/11 Was A Game Changer. It Altered My Perception Of The Security Threat We Faced. I Took The Position That Britain Should Be Shoulder To Shoulder With The U.s. It Was A Big Decision; I Didn't Take It Lightly, Or In Ignorance Of Its Consequences. It's A Big Commitment For A Country To Give, But I Believed It Was The Right Thing To Do.
I Think We Risk Becoming The Best Informed Society That Has Ever Died Of Ignorance.
Man Isn't A Fool For His Ignorance, But Rather For Believing Things That Are Wrong.
It's Not Ignorance Does So Much Damage; It's Knowin' So Derned Much That Ain't So.
The Trouble With Most Folks Isn't Their Ignorance. It's Knowin' So Many Things That Ain't So.
