Quotes about ignorance
ignorance errors deeds
Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance. Marcus Aurelius
ignorance men stronger
Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.
ignorance vanity principles
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
ignorance home dark
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that which I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
ignorance ill-will evil
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.
ignorance self deception
No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.
ignorance errors preservation
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. Simon Bolivar
ignorance doe hook
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. Sidney Hook
ignorance painful greater
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance. Sheryl Sandberg
ignorance compassion support
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on. Sharon Salzberg
ignorance suffering mindfulness
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
ignorance emotional hands
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand. Neil Peart
ignorance stupidity honor
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand. Tallulah Bankhead
ignorance kissing bliss
Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death. Suzy Kassem
ignorance voice justice
We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.
ignorance knowledge limits
Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. Swami Vivekananda
ignorance men long
So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.
ignorance sorrow want
Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.
ignorance reflection differences
Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours. Thucydides
ignorance mean humility
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence. Robert Andrews Millikan
ignorance men two
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in my judgment any excuse for a conflict between science and religion, for their fields are entirely different. Men who know very little of science and men who know very little of religion do indeed get to quarreling, and the onlookers imagine that there is a conflict between science and religion, whereas the conflict is only between two different species of ignorance.
ignorance light intellectual
If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship. Robert A. Heinlein
ignorance trying fool
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
ignorance men wicked
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger. Thomas Watson
ignorance evil void
Help and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil. Tom Hanks
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.
ignorance leader darkness
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. Rumi
ignorance have-faith definitions
God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope. Steve Allen
ignorance firsts steps
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Stephen Covey
ignorance knowledge men
Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him." Thomas Carlyle
ignorance gay men
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of human governors to that of letting men alone. Not a 'gay science', no, a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, the dismal science