Browsing Quotes With Tag: ignorance (12)
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The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate.
...And such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, neglect and pass them by. But with far more subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy and the sciences; in which the first conclusion colors and brings into conformity with itself all that come after, though far sounder and better. Besides, independently of that delight and vanity which I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed toward both alike. Indeed, in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two.Speaker: Francis BaconSource: Novum OrganumPosted: 11 Dec 2014 at 1:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
Speaker: John von NeumannPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Speaker: Upton SinclairSource: Predictably IrrationalPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.Posted: 11 Sep 2009 at 12:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Speaker: Emma GoldmanPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you think education is expensive, just try ignorance.
Posted: 19 Apr 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Posted: 05 Oct 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: Cat's CradlePosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Speaker: Laurence J. PeterPosted: 20 Mar 2008 at 8:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Speaker: Will DurantPosted: 20 Mar 2008 at 8:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!