What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We know a great deal, but our ignorance is sobering and boundless. With each step forward, with each problem which we solve,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars. Yes, an end to this brutal,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Humans are ignorant. We never need to make huge life or death decisions. And those who do, are ignored by others. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking. — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I hate the idea of sheltering kids from challenging books. It's just another form of conservative fear that promotes ignorance more than… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“It is never a good idea to do anything if you do not understand the process, asking questions does not represent ignorance,… — Anath Lee Wales Copy Share Image
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Millions cheer the warrior spilling blood across the ring while the one who stands for peace is ridiculed and shamed. Must hearts… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The only way to gain knowledge is by observing yours and others experiences. With that knowledge you can either take it to… — Jasari Music Copy Share Image
One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Not only do I disbelieve in the need for compensation, but I believe that the seeking for rewards and punishments out of… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can… — Jeffrey Rowland Copy Share Image
