Quotes About Ignorance

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all–no one's around to write horror stories.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

The Price of Neglect A PUBLIC THAT'S illiterate about the conflicts of the past can easily find itself confused during wartime. Without standards of historical comparison, people prove ill-equipped to make informed judgments when the dogs of war are unleashed. Neither U.S. politicians nor most citizens seem to recall the incompetence and terrible decisions that, in December 1777, December 1941, and November 1950, led to massive American casualties and, for a time, public despair.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

There isn't any good or bad, everything is either a product of pure awareness or sheer ignorance!

Never underestimate the power of denial.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

We do not actually know other nations

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.

If you think training is expensive, try ignorance.

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance

Civilisation has, indeed, become a slaughtering-car crowned by a grinning effigy of Comfort, before which man blindly and voluntarily hurls himself in his own ignorance.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that's what we begin to undo. If we see that we have no mindfulness, that we rarely refrain, that we have little well-being, that is not confusion, that's the beginning of clarity. As

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. We're able to see how we run and hide and keep ourselves busy so that we never have to let our hearts be penetrated. And we're also able to see how we could open and relax.

Not harming ourselves or others in the beginning, not harming ourselves or others in the middle, and not harming ourselves or others in the end is the basis of enlightened society. This is how there could be a sane world. It starts with sane citizens, and that is us. The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

The vicious cycle of existence—the round of birth and death and rebirth—which arises out of ignorance and is characterized by suffering; in ordinary reality, the vicious cycle of frustration and suffering generated as the result of karma (one's actions).