Quotes about ignorance

Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past worried about future ignorant about the present moment.

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society a non-reading nation will be nothing but a disgrace of all other nations!

Worldly life is not an impediment your obstinacies and your ignorance of the self are only the impediments.

Ignorance is an illusion we seek understanding. Compassion paves the way towards understanding and understanding paves the way towards acceptance.

There will always be haters. And the more you grow the more they hate the more they hate the more you grow.

He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

I am philosophical Christ crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable the latter is not.

He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well he who knows understanding well shall surely know and understand ignorance well

It is not the monsters we should be afraid of it is the people that don't recognize the same monsters inside of themself.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Evil is relatively rare ignorance is epidemic.

My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity the type of ignorance that allows people to self-identify as Christians (or any other religion) without having first researched the Holy Scriptures themselves in order to properly evaluate the religion’s veracity or falsity.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.

Definition of a zombie full spectrum ignorance.

Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome stupidity is much harder.

Not know it was hardknowing it was harder

Not knowing it was hard knowing it was harder.

Ignorance is relatively easy to cure stupidity is much harder.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

know your ignorance defile your ignorance

The Red Cross irritated Ugwu the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour.

Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration

The ignorant eschew phenomena but not thought the wise eschew thought but not phenomena.

Ignorance shrinks minds perception is the compass to knowledge.

Ignorance must be a fun place to live my parents seem to vacation there year-round.

Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.

We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance you have to move forward.

There is no shame in ignorance and failing there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

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.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has bee

Ignorance is the master key of all evils.

In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot readThe hunter's waking thoughts.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting untouched—just as a determination not to know serves the maker more than all the resources of clairvoyance—so there must be a minimum of ignorance in order to perfect a life in happiness. Thosewho lack such a thing must set about acquiring it: unintelligence must be earned.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

all appears to change when we change

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

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

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.