It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“We mathematicians understand that without the education of children, the economy cannot grow, and the world would starve from ignorance.” — V.M.Robinson Copy Share Image
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing… — Nel Noddings Copy Share Image
We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier… — Blanche Barton Copy Share Image
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We have compassion because of the incredible pain and suffering which we as unenlightened beings cause to ourselves and all others through… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“In what way could keeping me in ignorance be construed as protection?’ I straighten a piece of wire to add to the… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
“The nature of the senses (indriya) is that they only seek out sensorial (indriyagamya) pleasures and the nature of that which is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to lie, I recognized Luca’s voice almost instantly. But I was also in denial, and denial is a blissful… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a… — Eleanor Perenyi Copy Share Image
Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“Actually, even in the stage of delusion (absence of self realization), one should protect the weak and fight a powerful one. But… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The idea of fixing of healing is an important part of any genuine spiritual approach. Kabbalah is very much about this idea… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
This self-congratulatory notion Americans have that their country is Number One is borne of ignorance and bad manners. This self-congratulatory notion Americans… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but… — Cnut the Great Copy Share Image
There's no commodity we can take with us. There is only our lives, whether we live them wisely or whether we live… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
