Quotes About Ignorance

The population is ignorant of intrigues and power games, therefore we believe it easy to manipulate, but it is in fact, far more perceptive than many of our great minds.

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

Zen people almost never talk about hell or sin. For the real problem is ignorance, especially ignorance about our true identity.

A man of little learning deems that little a great deal; a frog, never having seen the ocean, considers its well a great sea.

The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher Than those that have their eyes and sight entire.

Very useless things we neglect, till they become old and useless enough to be put in Museums: and so very important things we study till, when they become important enough, we ignore them -- and rightly.

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

El mentiroso experimentado sabe que la clave del éxito está en fingir bien la ignorancia de ciertas cosas. Por ejemplo, de las consecuencias de lo que está diciendo. Es como hacer que sean los otros los que inventen.

Much of the evil in this world is due to the fact that man, in general, is hopelessly unconscious.

because) the only real danger that exists is men himself. He is the great danger and we are pityfully unaware of it. We know nothing of men. Far too little ... Carl Gustav Jung, 1959 in an interview with John Freeman ( youtube watch?v=2AMu-G51yTY 38:04)

Even a scientist is a human being, and it is quite natural that he, like others, hates the things he cannot explain and thus falls victim to the common illusion that what we know today represents the highest summit of knowledge.

Quien ha nacido y venido a este mundo para conocer la verdad, no puede perseverar en la ignorancia, el impulso es real en él, es indómito y rebelde. Sufre enórmemente bajo el peso y dominio de la falsedad, la calumnia, el engaño, la muerte continua; está sediento de libertad, de justicia, de vida real y de verdad

If ignorance alone, according to Gnostic orthodoxy, keeps humans tied to the material world, knowledge frees them from it. Because humans are ignorant, that knowledge must come from outside them. Because the powers of the material world are ignorant, too, that knowledge must come from beyond them as well: it can come only from the godhead. The dependence of humanity on the godhead matches the dependence of the ego on the unconscious to reveal itself.

Suç, nesiller önce iÅŸlenmiÅŸ olsa da, bugün iÅŸleniyor olsa da, her zaman ve her yerde olan bir eÄŸilimin semptomu olmaya devam etmektedir. Dolay?s?yla insan biraz "kötülüÄŸü hayal etse" iyi olurdu, zira ancak bir aptal kendi doÄŸas?n?n durumunu sürekli olarak görmezden gelebilir.

Mircea Eliade stated that for yoga and S?khya philosophy to which it is related, in contrast to other Indian schools of thought, "the world is real (not illusory—as it is, for example, for Ved?nta). Nevertheless, if the world exists and endures, it is because of the 'ignorance' of spirit."16 What distinguishes yoga is its essentially practical cast.

That goon didn't know fishing from cathedral architecture!

Stupid, even.

One can speak without understanding. What

Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

I've become convinced that what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

what you need instead is a full-fledged philosophy of technology use, rooted in your deep values, that provides clear answers to the questions of what tools you should use and how you should use them and, equally important, enables you to confidently ignore everything else.

And so the new century will bring a new kind of law,' was how Mr. Picton summed things up..... 'Proceedings where victims and witnesses are put on trial instead of defendants, where a murderer in identified as 'a woman' instead of an individual....If things go on like this we'll find ourselves in some shadow world, where lawyers use the ignorance of the average citizen to manipulate justice the way priests did in the Middle ages.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

Orinan las ranas? le preguntaron al lobezno santiago de raollet sus discipulos. Lo ignoro, respondio, pero preferiria la muerte a tener que admitir que si.