Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Ignorance Quotes

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

At ten, a child; at twenty, wild; at thirty, tame, if ever; at forty, wise;...

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane...

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane...

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it...

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one,...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one,...

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and...

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and...

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one;...

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their...

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their...

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which...

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, Which...

Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.

Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer.