Quotes About Ignorance

But how can an ordinary girl not know this? Had Varana's mother not bothered to teach her anything at all or just shouted complaints from a distance while her children fought and argued amongst themselves like wolf cubs?

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.

I pity the foo who kills all the Jews.

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

Being ignorant is truly bliss compared to being misinformed, especially if you're aware of the depths of your own ignorance. As Mother says, it isn't what you don't know that will kill you, it's what you think you know that just isn't so.

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

Sólo sé que no sé nada.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

The sage who engages in controversy with ignorant people must not expect to be treated with honour; and if a fool should overpower a philosopher by his loquacity it is not to be wondered at, for a common stone will break a jewel.

?çimizde ?eytan yok... ?çimizde aciz var... Tembellik var... ?radesizlik, bilgisizlik ve bunlar?n hepsinden daha korkunç bir ?ey: hakikatleri görmekten kaçmak itiyad? var...

Ali ovi su, kao sve neznalice u tim godinama, bili od onih što smatraju da je smijati se u lice ?ovjeku kojeg prvi put sre?eš svojevrsan pokazatelj superiornosti.

The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.

To be enlightened is not a condition of certainty. It is to move from limited knowing to boundless unknowing, from gravitas to grace. It is to awaken to a condition of borderless ignorance, of limitless uncertainty. When you are no longer bound by the limitations of creation, you are blessed with the freedom of the Creator. The

All of the "material-versus-spiritual" struggles of humanity spring from this ignorance. When you say "spirituality," you are talking about a dimension beyond the physical. The human desire to transcend the limitations of the physical is a completely natural one. To journey from the boundary-based individual body to the boundless source of creation—this is the very basis of the spiritual process.

As long as one is in pursuit of something or the other, it is an endless process. As long as we are getting identified and attached to different situations we get into, however beautiful the situation may be, the moment you think "this is it," you are trying to freeze yourself into a certain state of ignorance.

death is a fiction created by ignorant people. Death is the creation of the unaware, because if you are aware, it is life, life and life alone—moving from one dimension of Existence to another.

Mr. Muhammad sent me a typed reply. It had an all but electrical effect upon me to see the signature of the "Messenger of Allah." After he welcomed me into the "true knowledge," he gave me something to think about. The black prisoner, he said, symbolized white society's crime of keeping black men oppressed and deprived and ignorant, and unable to get decent jobs, turning them into criminals.

Más vale no preguntar a una mujer acerca de los hombres que ha conocido en su vida: o miente, y no se gana nada con ello, o dice la verdad, y entonces uno comprende que hubiera sido mejor seguir en la ignorancia.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

If anyone can refute me—show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

If any man can convince and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.