Quotes about ignorance
ignorance buddhism self
In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena. Dalai Lama
ignorance people hardship
The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . Diogenes
ignorance mean rights
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Desmond Tutu
ignorance ignorant states
To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence. David O. McKay
ignorance discipline anarchy
I prefer the discipline of knowledge to the anarchy of ignorance. David Ogilvy
ignorance law perfect
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment. David Mamet
ignorance would-be seconds
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. Clement Freud
ignorance shields losing
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield. Dan Simmons
ignorance routes absolutes
The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.
ignorance passion darkness
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly
ignorance army suffering
There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations....What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us. Daniel O'Connell
ignorance lines crosses
All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand. David Hawkins
ignorance moments inferno
There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist Dan Brown
ignorance brain convince
A brain you can convince, a simpleton you have to persuade. Curt Goetz
ignorance mistrust
We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other. Coretta Scott King
ignorance learning achievement
Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing. Confucius
ignorance knowing bliss
Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given. David Levithan
ignorance vastness teach
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. David Eagleman
ignorance bliss ignorance-is-bliss
When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom. David Eddings
ignorance addiction mind
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence. Deepak Chopra
ignorance awareness
Ignorance is constricted awareness....
ignorance half way
Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it. Amartya Sen
ignorance perception age
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed the level of what appalls, what stuns, what shocks. Anna Quindlen
ignorance mind closed-mind
Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.
ignorance long naked
Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long Alfred Lord Tennyson
ignorance world poverty
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it. Anthony Burgess
ignorance paying penalty
There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose.
ignorance men world
No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? William Wilberforce
ignorance unique men
After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and always will be a superior man. Anton LaVey
ignorance moon night star
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star
ignorance moon night
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
ignorance bored missing
To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate
ignorance complicated futility
The complicated futility of ignorance. Kurt Vonnegut