Ignorance Quotes - Page 14

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain real protection, for he could not hear temptation and bad advice to be swayed by it, but it was no protection at all when power reached out with tangible results and brought down the lightning.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Make sure you speak out and loud enough to be heard.

This is the way to shine; to make a difference even as you choose to stand up, speak out and maintain a valid positive opinion.

At work here is that powerful WYSIATI ("what you see is all there is") rule. You cannot help dealing with the limited information you have as if it were all there is to know. You build the best possible story from the information available to you, and if it is a good story, you believe it. Paradoxically, it is easier to construct a coherent story when you know little, when there are fewer pieces to fit into the puzzle. Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.

You do not realize what can happen when you liberate a mind from what society calls reason.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Until you truly learn how to act well, you shall always act only for your actions to teach you how to act well

It takes a very long time to become young.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

It is only when the mirror has not spoken to Chimpanzee in a plain language that it thinks it looks more better than the Gorilla

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, a priori, abnormal.

We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foolish enough to choose or be led to stand on the other. Thus we are male or female, old or young, of the East of West. By temperament we are introvert or extrovert, leaders of followers, all for action or striving rather to be. It surely follows that we should be more tolerant of the other fellow, equally right/wrong, and be less swift to judge him with our ignorant, lop-sided view and definite disapproval. In any event, do we have to express an opinion, presume to judge?

I do not respect a person without sadness in their eyes, but i do envy them..

We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.

And just like that, as if I hadn't said anything at all, the ladies sprang into a conversation about the sinful nature the Jews possessed when killing their Lord Jesus. I didn't know if I was hearing this right because I had become so intoxicated, but I couldn't believe that anyone would talk about religion while on vacation. How could Miss Nebraska think this was a proper environment to discuss something so controversial? One woman went on to say that if she had her way not only would President Bush serve a second four-year term, but she hoped they would overturn Roe v. Wade. This woman was obviously a menace to society and needed to be stopped.

In baseball you don't know nothing.

I have always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.

O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.

Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.

what wisdom can build, ignorance can destroy

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

Self-abuse is an infringement on one’s own destiny caused by either ignorance about oneself or negligence of one’s purpose!

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

The majority of people on earth are ignorant of what their time should be used for.

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse personality.

The life of a man who is ignorant of his destiny is meaningless

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.

Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.

Life is a natural phenomenon – and by mystifying it, one only disgraces its natural beauty.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.

She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.

It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

Ignorance is my refusal to think outside the box of my fears.

He, who don’t know the Almighty God don’t know what He knows for what he knows, knows the Almighty God as the Supreme God!

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done then they begin to hope it can be done then they see it can be done-then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance!

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!

I thought of this, tell me whether it is true or false; you do not know something, you cannot know everything and you can miss anything