“Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
But if we keep denying that there are problems with some male immigrants, then we will just drive the people into the… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners,… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
“This woman was full of so much ignorance it was almost like she wanted to stay that way. She saw what she… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Poke had never shared out so many raisins, because she had never had so many to share. But the little kids wouldn't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will… — John Selden Copy Share Image
“All the wounds of society, the wounds of poverty, of vice, of ignorance—all will be laid bare. Is there not something re-assuring… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I… — Larry Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
People will judge you based on what they've heard about you, but that's their problem not yours. If they want to believe… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“My life is diminished for the absence of great things. Yet they are in reality not absent at all. Rather I am… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“By prevailing in ignorance [of the Self], worldly life gets charged. By prevailing in the Knowledge of the Self, worldly life discharges!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Whatever you do in your worldly life, is all worldly vision. Until the line of demarcation (between the real and relative vision)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
The internal call is when the Spirit of God accompanies the outward administration of the Word to call a man from ignorance… — Christopher Love Copy Share Image
“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because… — Tom Regan Copy Share Image
There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“The question is really a kind of apathy and ignorance, which is the price we pay for segregation. That’s what segregation means.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Bondage of worldly life cannot tie us down; such is the knowledge of Vitrag (Enlightened One). Our ‘Self’ is such that it… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image