Confucius Quotes, Reading Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Reading Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Heart Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Animal Quotes

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Light Quotes

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Dark Quotes

There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Animal Quotes

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Understanding Quotes

The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abigail Adams Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Men Quotes

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Ignorant Quotes

Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Imagination Quotes

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , My Own Quotes

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Thinking Quotes