Quotes About Ignorance

Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

There are two kinds of suffering - conscious and unconscious. Only a fool suffers unconsciously.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Toate civiliza?iile care s-au dus de râp? au fost victima conjunc?iei letale dintre tic?lo?ie ?i ignoran??.

What's a Forever 21?" Ismay laughs at him. "How do you not know this? Wasn't it ever referenced in one of those YA novels you're always reading?" "Young adult fiction isn't like that.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

My dear Kepler , what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?

With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

So who turned up the volume of ignorance up to eleven?

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves. I

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is comprised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

The greatest obstacle to knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.

The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas.

The darkest night is ignorance.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

Taming a dog is a child's play, as to an ignorant person.

In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld's words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.

There is no real evil. Ignorant spirits might appear to be dark, but they are simply at an unenlightened (literally, "in the dark") level.

To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days, and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.