Ignorance Quotes - Page 12

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

In one period the grossest ignorance and barbarism prevailed in the world; and afterwards, in a more enlightened age, the most daring infidelity, and contempt of God; so that the world which was once over-run with ignorance, now by wisdom knew not God, but changed the glory of the incorruptible God as much as in the most barbarous ages, into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Nay, as they increased in science and politeness, they ran into more abundant and extravagant idolatries.

They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.