“Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.” MatterIgnoranceAshamed Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWellsMayReligionUniverseNamesIgnoranceSightResponsibleCrueltyAshamedHidingFollowersPromoting Author:Philip Pullman
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” PeopleThinkingMindBelieveHomeSchoolScienceReligionBeliefForceLeaderImagineWrittenCenturyIgnoranceFindingsPatientLibraryGuidesIgnorantBitterAshamedScience And ReligionResentOrganized ReligionUneducatedScience ReligionIgnorant PeopleThinking MindWillful IgnoranceRovingEducated And Uneducated Author:Isaac Asimov
“She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.” PeopleIfsShouldMindWellsPersonsWishKnowingIgnoranceShameIgnorantVanityAshamedMisfortunesSensibleInabilityMisplaced Author:Jane Austen
“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.” MenWorldFirstsHumanityLibertyStepsAtheismIgnoranceEternalFruitAtheistObedienceSatanAshamedRebelStampsSealsBrowsFreethinker Book:God and the State Source: God and the State
“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.” MenDoeWiseIgnoranceFoolSilentAshamed Author:Frank Herbert
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.” KnowsEducationTeacherIgnoranceIgnorantAshamed Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.” PeopleShouldHeartLittlesDoeIdeasFearVirtueAtheismIgnorancePlanetsProudRageHorribleOpeningFakePurityAshamedBe ProudClosingAuras Author:Pat Condell