Ignorance Quotes - Page 63

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for us, as long as they stay out of our way. Whether it’s through religiously-imposed ignorance, spectator sports, crack, pot, coke, heroin—or the consumer insecurities imposed by the almighty Tube—it’s fine with us as long as it keeps sheep more docile and easily contained. That doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to it. Military generals don’t step out on the missile range and volunteer as targets for the latest prototype weapons

As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

Admiration is the basis of ignorance.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

The knowledge and reason speak, ignorance and error shout.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.