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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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
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The problem with people who live in a world of speeches and books and theories is they don't know how to fix things in the real world when they go wrong. They feign ignorance, blame others, and make another eloquent speech.
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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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I always wrote with some kind of angle of ignorance. I didn't know what was right or wrong.
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I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
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Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
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Nothing in medical literature today communicates the idea that women's bodies are well-designed for birth. Ignorance of the capacities of women's bodies can flourish and quickly spread into the popular culture when the medical profession is unable to distinguish between ancient wisdom and superstitious belief.
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
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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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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.
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L'ignorance et l'erreur sont nécessaires à la vie comme le pain et l'eau.
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Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
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The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
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From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion ignorance.
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It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
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The only news most people ever hear about the inner city comes from grim headlines; the only residents they can name are characters on 'The Wire.' Of course, ignorance of a community doesn't stop outsiders from having opinions about it or passing laws that govern it.
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I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
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Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
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The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
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The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.
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The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.
