Ignorance Quotes - Page 36

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial -whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!

India saw from the beginning, - and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, - that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

There is but one evil, ignorance.

When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

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

The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.