Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

The more people are exposed to science, the more we will move away from superstition.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

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

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

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

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

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

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

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

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

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

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.

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

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.