Quotes About Ignorance

One of the least admirable things about people," said the small gentleman, "is the way they are afraid of whatever they don't understand.

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in thirty years.

The Ugly American

You're through in pictures, and plays, and vaudeville, and radio, and everything! You're a corpse, and you don't know it. Go get yourself buried.

Don't know much about historyDon't know much biologyDon't know much about a science bookDon't know much about the French I took

Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

He multiplieth words without knowledge.

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence like the sunlight will illuminate you in God and will deliver you from the phantoms of ignorance.… In the beginning we have to force ourselves to be silent. But then there is born something that draws us to silence.… If only you practice this, untold light will dawn on you in consequence … after a while a certain sweetness is born in the heart of this exercise and the body is drawn almost by force to remain in silence.

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

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, for all you do is see for the first time what you have always been looking at. Who ever heard of a path that brings you to yourself or a method that makes you what you have always been? Spirituality, after all, is only a matter of becoming what you really are.

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." To see this is to acquire the indiscriminate quality one so admires in the rose, the lamp and the tree.

he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet. [Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis]

Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege: to find a shell, to feel it, to understand only on some unspeakable level why it bothered to be so lovely. What joy he found in that, what utter mystery.

She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everyone does

Do we have our heads in the sand, Madame? Or do they?" "Maybe everybody does