The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Read with care, George Orwell’s diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code – with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It’s very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.