Quotes about ignorance
ignorance charming
My ignorance is not charming. Susan Sontag
ignorance disease theory
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
ignorance views doubt
When did ignorance become a point of view? Scott Adams
ignorance views sea
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P. LOVECRAFT, "The Call of Cthulhu" When did ignorance become a point of view?
ignorance men stupidity
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity. Konrad Adenauer
ignorance hands generosity
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Kofi Annan
ignorance agree-to-disagree want
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. Katy Perry
ignorance men fire
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again. Ramakrishna
ignorance attachment bliss
Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
ignorance long meditation
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
ignorance men hands
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all. Ramana Maharshi
ignorance mind information
If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. Orson Scott Card
ignorance hard-times winning
I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.
ignorance people purity
The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.
ignorance next wealth
The next great transfer of wealth WILL take place, not by conspiracy but by ignorance. Robert Kiyosaki
ignorance views ideas
If your mind is open to opposing ideas, your intelligence will go up. If your mind is closed to opposing ideas, your ignorance is in control. Intelligence or ignorance? Your ability to keep an open mind and appreciate multiple points of view is conscious choice. And one that can open your world, and shape your childs future.
ignorance scientist enough
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. Richard Dawkins
ignorance challenges essentials
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
ignorance intelligence misled
He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge. Richard Whately
ignorance evil genius
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind. Richelle Mead
ignorance greek might
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus." Tryon Edwards
ignorance names would-be
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
ignorance safe dangerous
There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous. Rex Stout
ignorance people skillful
People are so skillful in their ignorance! Paramahansa Yogananda
ignorance men long
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.
ignorance hatred
Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. P. C. Cast
ignorance isolation bigotry
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah
ignorance logic infinite
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. Percy Bysshe Shelley
ignorance thinking feelings
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.
ignorance simple men
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them, but moreover the most simple events, of which the causes are the most simple to understand by whomever is able to study them. In a word, man has always respected unknown causes, surprising effects that his ignorance kept him from unraveling. It was on this debris of nature that man raised the imaginary colossus of the Divinity.
ignorance judgement criticism
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
ignorance study funny-exam
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
ignorance men precious-gifts
Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift. Paul Valery