Albert Camus Quotes

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Hardly any man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

What you don't know can hurt you.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

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

Biological science is a tool, and like all tools, it can be used for good or bad. It’s like a knife blade with three edges: The edge that cuts, the dull edge that does not cut well and the edge that cuts what you do not want it to.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

When you think you're a really good person, you're actually capable of doing some real harm to people, either knowingly or unknowingly. It's the big little lie that we all live in.

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.