Charles Percy Snow Quotes

I'm against ignorance.

There are none so ignorant but they may be taught. So, too, are there none so unfortunate in their understanding of the true and high relation of the sexes as not to be amenable to the right kind of instruction.

Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.