Quotes About Ignorance

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. ... it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? - Ignorance of our own nature.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

Nowdays it is the fashion to admire loudest what one understands least. - Mr Bingley

What was being put over (by Musso[lini] & Co.) was, she was never in doubt, based on trickery and false values, sanctified aggression, pandered to false pride; it made ignorant youth feel important, gave foolish people spurious hopes – it was dangerous stuff.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

What you don't know would make a great book.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.In order to arrive at what you do not knowYou must go by the way which is the way of ignorance.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

El conocimiento puede ser un freno. La ignorancia puede liberar. Saber cuándo saber y cuándo no saber es tan importante como un acero bien templado. Suzume-no-kumo, 1434

Words can damage. Silence can heal. Knowing when to speak and when not to speak is the wisdom of sages. Knowledge can hinder. Ignorance can liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know is the wisdom of prophets. Unimpeded by words, silence, knowledge, or ignorance, a fluent blade cuts cleanly. This is the wisdom of warriors.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I didn't know you even could get arrested in Amsterdam

learned a long time ago never to underestimate the spectacular natural wonder that is people's stupidity.

As the name implies, acquired ignorance is not intrinsic but rather comes about due to the influence of adopted beliefs and the culture we are raised in.

the real threats to our well-being are attachment, anger, and ignorance—the three fundamental deluded minds that lead to all other afflictions, both mental and physical.