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Quotes About Ignorance

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.
~ Adyashanti
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
~ Aeschylus
Verily a prosperous fool is a heavy load.
~ Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.
~ Aeschylus
Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.
~ African Proverb
A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves
~ Agatha Christie
One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.
~ Agatha Christie
But I've always found that those who talk most about blood have never actually seen it run.
~ Agatha Christie
Un buen consejo siempre será ignorado, pero eso no es motivo para no darlo.
~ Agatha Christie
His name, he noted with chagrin, made no particular impression on her. The younger generation, he could not but feel, were singularly lacking in knowledge of notable celebrities
~ Agatha Christie
Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o. Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea. Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.
~ Ahmed Korayem
People have blind faith in confident fools
~ Ahmed Korayem
People who don't understand want to know, but people who know, don't want to understand.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
The Attractions of the Senses and the Distractions of the Mind create Pollution that has no Solution-overcoming Ignorance with self-realization.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
We live in darkness, in ignorance we are bound,Until the Divine light in our Soul is found. This is Enlightenment, this is Salvation,In simple words, it is Liberation.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
My Ego is only my Identity. My Ego is not 'Me'. Because I live in Ignorance, who 'I' truly am, I cannot see.
~ AiR AtmanInRavi
The Internet is where stupid goes to find stupider so it doesn't have to feel so stupid.
~ Aisha Tyler
If you are out on the wheel, you are caught on the dizzying momentum of going round in circles. We call it 'samsara' ? 'samsara-vatta' means 'going round in circles' — endless cycles, not really going anywhere but round. That is why when you do things from ignorance, you find yourself coming back and repeating the same things over and over again.
~ Ajahn Sumedho
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.
~ Akhenaton
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
~ Akhenaton
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.
~ Akira Kurosawa
Ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal.
~ Akira Kurosawa
I'm not good at everything. Or, to be more honest, I'm pretty bad on some fairly major metrics. I'm selfish. I feel entitled to things always going my way. I despise hearing about other people's problems, because I don't like most people, especially people who would be described as normal. They say ignorance is bliss? I think bliss is for the ignorant.
~ Alafair Burke