Quotes About Ignorance

Puede muy bien suceder, que ni él ni yo sepamos nada de lo que es bello y de lo que es bueno; pero hay esta diferencia, que él cree saberlo aunque no sepa nada, y yo, no sabiendo nada, creo no saber. Me parece, pues, que en esto yo, aunque poco más, era más sabio, porque no creía saber lo que no sabía

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing

the root of all our suffering in samsara is ignorance.

Notre société est vouée presque exclusivement au culte de l'ego et à ses tristes fantasmes de réussite et de pouvoir ; elle célèbre les forces mêmes d'avidité et d'ignorance qui sont en train de détruire notre planète.

En la mayoría de nosotros, no obstante, el karma y las emociones negativas oscurecen la capacidad de ver nuestra propia naturaleza intrínseca y la naturaleza de la realidad. En consecuencia, nos aferramos a la felicidad y al sufrimiento como si fueran reales, y con nuestras acciones ignorantes y carentes de habilidad seguimos sembrando las semillas de nuestro siguiente nacimiento.

Fear of death and ignorance of the afterlife are fueling that destruction of our environment that is threatening all of our lives. So isn't it all the more disturbing that people are not taught what death is, or how to die?

It means a person, any person, who has completely awakened from ignorance and opened to his or her vast potential of wisdom. A buddha is one who has brought a final end to suffering and frustration, and discovered a lasting and deathless happiness and peace.

Good in the Beginning springs from the awareness that we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence, and that to realize it is to be free of ignorance and to put an end, finally, to suffering.

Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing

It's easier for parents to ignore, to pretend that everything's great and then do whatever they want while convinced it's something you want, too.

Per un genitore è più facile ignorarti o fingere che tutto vada bene, così può fare quello che vuole e convincersi che vada bene anche a te.

Men of ill judgment often ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. India saw from the beginning -- and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight -- that life cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.

My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.

Unless a man live the ordinary life and check every incident as the projection of the Self, not swerving from the Self in any circumstances, he cannot be said to be free from the handicap of ignorance

Regretting the past is the first sign of ignorance. Anxiety about the future is the second sign of ignorance. And being miserable is the sign of total ignorance. If you are in regret mode, then you are on the first step and that is 'Vishada Yoga'.

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in such part as is defined by a certain space, than in its infinitude; and so is not wholly every where, as Spirit, as God. And what that should be in us, by which we were like to God, and might be rightly said to be after the image of God, I was altogether ignorant.