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
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not… — J. K. Rowling 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
The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink… — Davi Kopenawa Yanomami 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
“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
I have often come across convinced adepts of Greek mythology who mock our faith under the pretext that we do not say… — Theodoret 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
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Circumstances can be changed through agnan (ignorance of the Self) and they can be changed to gnan (knowledge of the Self). With… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have… — Marcus Aurelius 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make… — David Whiteland Copy Share Image
“oo many people are profoundly illiterate in power (TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power). As a result, it’s become… — eric liu Copy Share Image
“The truth is, there is good and bad in everybody, in every nation, in every race, and in every religion. To hear… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Look around you, he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. Not a one of them even has an inkling of… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People ask, ‘Did the soul do all this?’ No, it is only scientific circumstantial evidence. How is that? If you stand in… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When it happeneth that a man signifieth unto us two contradictory opinions whereof the one is clearly and directly signified, andthe other… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some… — Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Copy Share Image
“All the people of the world believe the actions of the mind, speech and body as their own. “Really speaking”, “One’ (the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“(...)'Of all the human body parts, the tongue is the most dangerous to one's soul and well being', to which quote, the… — Adriana Renescu Copy Share Image
“The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image