“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.” TodayScienceReligionReligiousAtheismIgnoranceRemainsAtheistIntelligenceSurrenderIgnorantAgnosticThere Is No GodAtheisticPrematureIf There Is A GodThere Being No GodWillful IgnoranceReligion In SocietyAnti AtheistGreatest AtheistThinking GodReligion Today Author:Isaac Asimov
“Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the facts on which the working of society rests...civilization rests on the fact that we all benefit from knowledge which we do not possess. And one of the ways in which civilization helps us to overcome that limitation on the extent of individual knowledge is by conquering intelligence, not by the acquisition of more knowledge, but by the utilization of knowledge which is and which remains widely dispersed among individuals.” WayFactsHelpingIndividualCivilizationMembersBenefitsOvercomingRemainsIgnorantConquerLimitationPossessedAcquisitionFractionsMore KnowledgeUtilization Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.” WellsFeelingsPainAdviceColdCriticismRemainsHungerIllIgnorantContemptSubordinatesUnderdogIll Health Author:Alice Foote MacDougall
“Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.” MenMindDoeAbleCertainRemainsIgnorant Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.” IfsMenMayMatterFactsWishViewsThousandTenRemainsPoint Of ViewIgnorantInferiorsDemonstrationFathomBeetles Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“No one knows what he himself is made of, except his own spirit within him, yet there is still some part of him which remains hidden even from his own spirit; but you, Lord, know everything about a human being because you have made him...Let me, then, confess what I know about myself, and confess too what I do not know, because what I know of myself I know only because you shed light on me, and what I do not know I shall remain ignorant about until my darkness becomes like bright noon before your face.” KnowsHumansMadeStillsLightFacesSpiritHuman BeingsLordDarknessLet MeRemainsIgnorantYour FaceShedNoon Author:Saint Augustine
“A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.” MenWiseIgnoranceRemainsIgnorantLove Wisdom Book:Above Life's Turmoil Source: Above Life's Turmoil
“The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.” YearsBookReligionChurchLaughingForeverCenturyCapableIntellectualBibleCatholicRemainsIgnorantMortalsIdiotBiblicalPopeAdvancementProtestants Book:Discussions Source: Discussions
“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.” IfsKnowsLifeEnoughMomentsUseWisdomChoicesUniverseWonderKnowledgeWiseIgnoranceMinesEternalGainsDestructionRemainsEndureIgnorantDullUnseenEternal LifeComprehensionAchillesSwirls Author:Isaac Asimov