Quotes about ignorance
ignorance perfect transition
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter. Thomas Carlyle
ignorance men statistics
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
ignorance men thinking
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. Tom Watson
ignorance writing law
Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
ignorance men now-and-then
Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.
ignorance barbarians wells
A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded. Stanislaw Lem
ignorance kids thinking
We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal. Spike Lee
ignorance lessons youth
Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson ... Sigrid Undset
ignorance army years
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day. This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity. Sun Tzu
ignorance knowledge men
Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side... Robert Browning
ignorance laughing special
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. Richard Mitchell
ignorance assumption
Ignorance is brought about by assumption. T. D. Jakes
ignorance ideas silence
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word. T. S. Eliot
ignorance order way
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.
ignorance dust ideas
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.
ignorance
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
ignorance dangerous
Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance. Sydney J. Harris
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 people political
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen. L. Ron Hubbard
ignorance knowledge men
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up. Thomas Aquinas
ignorance animal greatness
It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.
ignorance progress disability
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. Terry Pratchett
ignorance knowing perspective
Humans see what they want to see. Rick Riordan