Ignorance Quotes
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
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Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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There are no divisions as such, but there is an appearance of separateness because of ignorance. This means that everything is of ignorance and that every one is Ignorance personified.
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The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.'I did not know that I was a virtue,' she said. 'Why did you not choose Innocence?''Because of her ignorance,' they replied. 'She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.'
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Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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The unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground has, as its necessary condition, self-abnegation and charity. Only by means of self-abnegation and charity can we clear away the evil, folly and ignorance which constitute the thing we call our personality and prevent us from becoming aware of the spark of divinity illuminating the inner man.
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The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
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The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
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But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
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Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.
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What the use of having ignorance if you can't show it?