Quotes About Ignorance

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

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

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

The self has no boundaries except those it accepts out of ignorance

Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear. Of course, there are lots of other words he doesn't know either.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

In 1786, Jefferson pitched a secular and public system of education for Virginia. He reasoned that "the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more that the thousandth part of what will be paid to [the] kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.

We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.

Deux choses sont infinies : l'Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l'Univers, je n'en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity

Todos somos muy ignorantes. Lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos las mismas cosas.

Condemnation before investigation, is the highest form of ignorance.

Due cose sono infinite: l'universo e la stupidità umana, ma riguardo l'universo ho ancora dei dubbi.

Of what is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

Sólo hay dos cosas infinitas: el universo y la estupidez del hombre.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe