Buddhism Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.”

— Eoin Colfer

“It is the others you must convince, the ignorant masses, yet paradoxically, they are the ones hardest for you to reach. Theirs are the…

— Peter F. Hamilton

“We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

“Why were the people who clung so fiercely to the notions of right and wrong the very same individuals that had the worst grasp…

— Wildbow

“It is only as they are free, educated, enlightened, that they become a nuisance,”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The Enlightenment was not a revolutionary movement; it was not even a political movement. It was a collection of scholars, writers, artists and historians…

— John Hirst

“How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.”

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

“Nobody makes anybody enlightened. Just tell them what you want to say, then let them decide for themselves.”

— Toba Beta

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“anyone reared by fundamentalist parents deserves credit for the exceptional struggle from indoctrination to enlightenment.”

— Peter Boghossian

“Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution”

— Jeremy Aldana

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay