Ignorance Quotes - Page 4

How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?

God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge.

When we've got a common philosophy and a common objective; then we can advance in open order. We shall be a great team. But we've got to make sure of that common set of ideas. Maybe we shall find our formulae difficult for some of these new types. If we keep our minds open, we may find that they are right and that our formulae have to be modified. Probably -- it's a thought that shouldn't dishearten us -- but probably we don't know everything.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.

Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

If we go back to the beginning we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned or disfigured them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them, and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of man serve its own interests.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.""Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anyt

I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information than he or she can put out. “Stupidity” is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information she or he puts out, commits him or herself to taking in no more information than she or he can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind/perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results,’ and he understood why! ‘The process, however, can be reversed,’ the voice continued, ‘at any time.

There are feet that are swift to mete out defeat to anything different, but in doing so the assailant is already defeated. I say to them that the lack of awareness concerning their premature end is due to their immaturity and ignorance. The awareness defeatists lack, is found in those they hunger to defeat. To them, difference is hostility.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.

It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies the ‘policy of prohibition’ as a major source of ignorance, fear and confusion concerning psychoactive substances, their uses, users, effects and outcomes.

Bandar had effortlessly converted Ratiram’s grit into the smoke rings that he blew triumphantly in the air.

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything

The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person’s argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

It's utter arrogance to think that we can know what god ought to be or do. If we don't understand we must continue our search or recognize our ignorance

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world.

Every opportunity, every influence and affluence you possess, could not have been for you alone, but to act as a platform to impact a generation.

If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge.

No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

Many people come and go,knowing not why they ever did so.A miserable thing can it be -unconscious of why thy Creator made thee.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.

The people perish due to lack of understanding.

Some of the common occurrences of injustice are the presence of poverty, starvation, gender inequality, neglected widows and orphans and the injustice towards other vulnerable groups of people.

To be under a physical bondage or a mental bondage is one of the worst situations someone could ever be in life.

There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

It is a pity that every one of us desires greatness yet not many of us know what to do with our time.

If you feel ashamed of ignorance,it's your fault.Try to make yourself acceptable.

We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

He, who don’t know the Almighty God don’t know what He knows for what he knows, knows the Almighty God as the Supreme God!

To not know what to do during the vacations is just a proof that society and the school system has stolen your life from you.

Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.

When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Each one of us had been starved for love for so long that we wanted to believe that love, once found, was all-powerful. We wanted to believe that it could give word to my inchoate pain and rages; that it could enable Muriel to face the world and get a job; that it could free our writings, cure racism, end homophobia and adolescent acne.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

If a person is not free, his right is restricted.