497 quotes found
“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”
“If you dont know how to use an object properly, it is possible that you will use it for something other than the purpose it was intended for”
“One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with these two powerful components of our national character, ignorance and willfu...”
“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
“The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.”
“But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.”
“The people perish due to lack of understanding.”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
“The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.”
“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.”
“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”
“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”
“originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”
“all appears to change when we change”
“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such...”