Quotes About Ignorance

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were ignorant of only ordinary things.

Leaning against an oak tree for shade, I can't help but confront my own ignorance regarding these issues. I remember the grape boycott, but little else. It was not my struggle. That was my privilege. Now I see it differently. Acts of injustice undermine all of us. The privacy of hypocrisy is corrosive.

Beware the ignorant, Lorenzo. They're the most dangerous enemy of all, because they are everywhere.

Fear feeds off ignorance, whereas compassion and lucidity flower from understanding.

The commentaries usually mention nine kinds of internal formations: desire, hatred, pride, ignorance, stubborn views, attachment, doubt, jealousy, and selfishness. Among these, the fundamental internal formation is ignorance, the lack of clear seeing. Ignorance is the raw material out of which the other internal formations are made. Although there are nine internal formations, because "desire" is always listed first, it is often used to represent all the internal formations.

Wenig Bildung macht Einbildung!

Yet because of the ignorance and stupidity of so many of those about him, he was able to consider himself at least fairly learned.

He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.

Fear is based on ignorance. Lack of understanding is also a primary cause of anger.

Buddhist meditation is based on the principle of nonduality. This means that if we are mindfulness, if we are love, we are also ignorance, we are also suffering, and there is no reason to suppress anything at all.

Ignorance is in each cell of our body and our consciousness. It's like a drop of ink diffused in a glass of water.

We may think that if we ignore our fears, they'll go away. But if we bury worries and anxieties in our consciousness, they continue to affect us and bring us more sorrow

Fear gives life to anger. You don't have peace when fear is there, so it becomes the soil on which anger can grow. Fear is based on ignorance, and this lack of understanding is also a primary cause of anger.

The Buddha teaches us that we have to master ourselves first. Before we can act, we have to cool these coals beneath us. To succeed doesn't mean triumphing over the one who causes us to suffer, but over our own ignorance and resentment. No matter what has been done to us or how we've been wronged, we're always responsible for at least fifty percent of our suffering, perhaps more.

la infelicidad humana se asienta fundamentalmente en tres elementos: la ignorancia, el apego y la ira.

The teaching of the Buddha relieves us of suffering. The basis of suffering is ignorance about the true nature of self and of the world around you. When you don't understand, you are afraid, and your fear brings you much suffering. That is why the offering of nonfear is the best kind of gift you can give, to yourself and to anyone else.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don't know what they're talking about.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.