“The ironies of her ignorance were sometimes too hard to bear.” — Rebecca Harrington Copy Share Image
“Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction” — Simón Bolívar Copy Share Image
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As the island of knowledge grows, so does the… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
[For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Renounce (tyaag) if it is in your prakruti (inherent nature). Do penance (tapa) if it is in your prakruti. Chant (japa) if… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Mud of the pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body) is such that the harder one tries to get out, the deeper… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even… — Sam Harris 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
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave… — Lillian Smith Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image