Plato Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Soul Quotes

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

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Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

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The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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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.

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If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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Not to destroy but to construct, I hold the unconquerable belief that science and peace will triumph over ignorance and war that nations will come together not to destroy but to construct and that the future belongs to those who accomplish most for humanity.

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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

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The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

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Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

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To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.

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There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

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

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.

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