Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.
Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.
“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”
Anything gained through ignorance is destined to be lost in the same way.
The ignorance of science means the enforced ignorance of mankind.
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandish'd at the eyes of ignorance.
No tool is more beneficial than intelligence. No enemy is more harmful than ignorance.