It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing. — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands… — Chinweizu Ibekwe Copy Share Image
How strangely is antiquity treated! To answer some purposes it is spoken of as the times of darkness and ignorance, and to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of the non-Self (paudgalik-gnan) is called agnan (ignorance). Knowledge of the Self is called atma-gnan (realization of the soul). To attain… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]” — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Better be unborn than unthoughtful,for ignorance is the root of misfortune... — Jesse Joseph Copy Share Image
Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go… — Shinjo Ito Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set… — Eliza Lynn Linton Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of our seemingly insurmountable ignorance keeps us seeking.” — Owen O'Brien 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
A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Your silence hurts me more than your words, but your ignorance hurts me more than your intentions ever can. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more--also because the status quo depends on it; but love… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way -… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
