Thomas Huxley Quotes

We must say something, even when we know nothing.

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

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

Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?

If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.

Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.

Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.

I'm just very interested in what my guests have to say. You have to be vigilant to stay ignorant.

The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

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.

Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

Only a few years ago there was no person too ignorant to successfully answer Charles Darwin; and the more ignorant he was the more cheerfully he undertook the task.

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.