Quotes about ignorance
ignorance errors water
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water. Anatole France
ignorance blessing men
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness.
ignorance men conquer-the-world
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
ignorance world easier
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong. Chuck Palahniuk
ignorance differences mind
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
ignorance giving neurosurgeons
I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset." Christopher Reeve
ignorance men grace
The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance to knowledge, and a state of nature to a state of grace.
ignorance sin
There is no sin but ignorance. Christopher Marlowe
ignorance way action
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable Andrew Cohen
ignorance distrust mutual
Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust. Andrew Carnegie
ignorance sound depth
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears. Amos Bronson Alcott
ignorance stupidity innocence
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
ignorance evil tragedy
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that. Anthony de Mello
ignorance spirituality awareness
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
ignorance eye thoughtful
... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere. Anna Julia Cooper
ignorance silence speech
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech.
ignorance learning race
Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense. Ambrose Bierce
ignorance knowledge small-parts
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
ignorance wish littles
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Anthony Hope
ignorance intelligent germany
It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control. Alice Hamilton
ignorance hair self
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. Anne Lamott
ignorance republic bitter
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. Alphonse de Lamartine
ignorance entrepreneur loser
For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed. Donald Trump
ignorance shapes today
To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions Douglass North
ignorance carpe-diem letters
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around Dr. Seuss
ignorance choices age
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Donald Miller
ignorance writing needs
My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know. Don Murray
ignorance hysteria epidemics
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. Colin Wilson
ignorance science doubt
True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain. Claude Bernard
ignorance attachment body
Consciousness will always be present, though a particular consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end. Dalai Lama
ignorance roots light
Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.
ignorance hatred realization
Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.
ignorance commitment greed
Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.