Hosea Ballou Quotes

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

It is men of science who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.

I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant