Molly Ivins Quotes

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

He doubts nothing who knows nothing.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

The less you know, the more you believe.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

No one who lives in error is free.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

What you don't know can hurt you.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

It's not what you don't know that kills you but what you know that isn't so.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom.

There is one thing that is only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.