Ignorance Quotes
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All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be - don't try to become. Within these two words - being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
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Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.
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I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
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If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
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Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
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Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
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Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
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I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.
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I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance.
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Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.
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You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
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It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.
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Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
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You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
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I was heavily involved on all fronts: with mountaineering outfitters, who oddly enough never fathomed the depths of my ignorance; possibly because they couldn’t conceive of anyone acquiring such a collection of equipment without knowing how to use it…
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True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
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Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
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I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.
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A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
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As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
