“People are inclined to accept all stories of ancient times in an uncritical way -even when those stories concern their own native… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Most causes of ignorance can be overcome, if people are willing to learn. Nothing, however, can overcome the toxic confluence of arrogance,… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Never make the mistake of thinking you are alone — or inconsequential. Ignorance is voluntary and confusion is temporary. You see the… — Rebecca McKinsey Copy Share Image
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration,… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
“We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
According to the Buddha, the failure to recognize the illusion of the self is the source of all ignorance and unhappiness. It… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If I had a child who wanted to be a teacher, I would bid him Godspeed as if he were going to… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“With true understanding, intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) will come down. Intoxication will not come down with wrong understanding.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Freedom from ignorance of the Self is the intent moksha (bhaav-moksha) and then comes [into effect] the actual moksha (drayva-moksha).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Man's sense of values is so degraded that he does not revere the Geetha, as much as he values and scans the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have,… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I… — Casanova Copy Share Image
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to… — Charles Glover Barkla Copy Share Image
“Sure, Mom. They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing.… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
“Ignorance/hateracist ideasdiscrimination: this causal relationship is largely ahistorical. It has actually been the inverse relationship—racial discrimination led to racist ideas which led… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“The one who attains the 'Akram' path, will have his spiritual work done. (On this path), you have neither been made to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The fact that I'd never really seen myself on screen allowed for a blissful ignorance. It didn't feel like a movie. I… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from… — Virginia Euwer Wolff Copy Share Image
“There is no credulity more blind, no ignorance more childish, that that of the sage who tries to measure “heaven and earth… — Alastair Gunn 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 word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
“Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image