Ignorance Quote by Stephen Batchelor

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the…

— Patanjali

“Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it…

— Ruth Ozeki

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

— Jane Smiley

“I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling,…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Ignorance is the perception of the nonexistent, and the nonperception of the Existent.”

— Yukteswar Giri

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine

“In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and…

— Ruth Ozeki

Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid for want…

— Samuel Johnson

The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination…

— Dainin Katagiri

“Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will…

— John Kramer

“Ignorance is the root of everything that stands in the way of these attainments. Ignorance binds us to suffering; therefore ignorance has to be…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature: once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is…

— Thomas Paine