497 quotes found
“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”
“Sometimes, Miss Jarmond, it's not easy to bring back the past. There are unpleasant surprises. The truth is harder than ignorance”
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
“If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.”
“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of gener...”
“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
“His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.”
“Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things ...”
“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of...”
“Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ul...”
“Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for....”
“Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.”
“Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.”
“When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.”
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is s...”
“And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...”
“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.s in mans ignorance.”
“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
