Ignorance Quotes

2444 Ignorance quotes by 1417 unique authors

Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same… — Frederick Lenz
The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly… — Frederick Lenz
Unlike the experience of nirvana, traveling to other dimensions will not take you beyond suffering, nor will it help you experience the limitless ecstasy of… — Frederick Lenz
In the realm of the higher astral, it's just fun. We're on the honeymoon and we love each other so much that we can't keep… — Frederick Lenz
Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed. — Frederick Lenz
It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all… — Frederick Lenz
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is… — Bertrand Russell
When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid. — Leo Tolstoy
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once… — Michel de Montaigne
Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that… — Aldous Huxley
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down… — Eric Hoffer
Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was… — Mark Twain
Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither… — Victor Hugo
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work… — Samuel Johnson
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the… — George Herbert
We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed… — Thomas Paine
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. — Anatole France
Ignorance of the law excuses no man. — John Selden
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. — Rita Mae Brown
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the… — Jack Kerouac

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