Quotes about ignorance
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. Orson Scott Card
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 love magic
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end Benjamin Disraeli
ignorance men evil
The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself Sophocles
ignorance evil tough
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
ignorance carpe-diem encyclopedia-britannica
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock
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 simple two
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho Rajneesh
ignorance mean men
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins. Otherwise man lives in darkness. Meditation enkindles something that is latent in all of us, but needs to be provoked. We are looking outwards. Our backs are at our inner source; hence it is being neglected, ignored. and to ignore one's inner being is the only ignorance. To know it is the only knowledge. All other knowledge is worthless. It may help you in the world but it can't help you in eternity.
ignorance battle tools
Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits. Thomas Jefferson
ignorance mind may
Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
ignorance knowing-nothing government
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
ignorance reality thinking
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. Tacitus
ignorance
Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
ignorance dark littles
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery. Swami Vivekananda
ignorance intellectual culture
Bloom never pissed me off because there are critics out there, and he's one of them, who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. Stephen King
ignorance college thinking
I'm an avid reader, and though it doesn't always work out in terms of relaxation, I've got to keep myself up to date with current affairs. I was a journalism student in college, and I don't feel like I can relax unless I feel informed. When people say they can't watch the news because it's too stressful, I just think, ignorance isn't bliss. It's just another way to procrastinate. Sophia Bush
ignorance self complacency
Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance. Solomon Schechter
ignorance ideas people
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963 Stanley Kubrick
ignorance doe knows
The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it. Soren Kierkegaard
ignorance negativity individuality
Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . Yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . An individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. But precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .
ignorance race genius
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in. Stephen Vizinczey
ignorance sometimes perks-of-a-wallflower
It’s much easier not to know things sometimes. Stephen Chbosky
ignorance gun mind
Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds. Stephen Colbert
ignorance writing thinking
Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. Thomas Pynchon
ignorance men law
Ignorance of the law is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the laws to which he is subject. Thomas Hobbes
ignorance men talking
Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion
ignorance men two
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other either drawn from that by consequence, or not known to be contradictory to it; then (when he is not present to explicate himself better) we are to take the former of his opinions; for that is clearly signified to be his, and directly, whereas the other might proceed from error in the deduction, or ignorance of the repugnancy.
ignorance passion men
And in these four things, opinion of ghosts , ignorance of second causes, devotion towards what men fear , and taking of things casual for prognostics , consisteth the natural seed of religion ; which by reason of the different fancies, judgments and passions of several men, has grown up into ceremonies so different, that those which are used by one man, are for the most part ridiculous to another.
ignorance men law
But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.