Ignorance Quotes - Page 24

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

In the Bible the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

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 .

All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don´t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance." Osho

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

...but then the general trouble with ignorance is always that the ignorant person has no idea that that's what they are. You can be ignorant and stupid and go through your whole life without ever encountering any evidence against the hypothesis that you're a genius.

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if considered, will be found to be adverse to Unity.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.