Ignorance Quotes - Page 20

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here.

If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge.

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.

Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education

When justice is prioritized by any leader at any level then to give justice to the citizenry will always be at the back of the mind of such a leader.

Knowing your purpose helps you in using all available resources in achieving your goals

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

There is a commanded blessing on anyone that values, esteems and stands for justice in society.

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

The madness in the heart is the state of mind.

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

if you think you know all that somebody knows, you shall least know all that somebody knows. If you think you least know all that somebody knows, you shall really know all that somebody knows.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.

We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.

The human has not one but two births – first, when a person is born from the mother’s womb, and second, when that person rises from the socio-culturally imposed cocoon of prejudices and ignorance.

Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.

The only pathway to your destruction is your ignorance.

Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats. Even the newspapers of our own day are beginning to treat scientific discoveries and the creation of fresh philosophical concepts as news. The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.Progress along such lines will be impossible while nations persist in the savage practice of killing each other off. I inherited from my father, an erudite man who labored hard for peace, an ineradicable hatred of war.

Ignorance is the darkest depths.

If it is God’s business, then it should be your business.

I know it was wonderful but I don't know how I did it.

Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will ‘realize’ true happiness.

They" hate us because they feel--and "they" are not wrong--that it is within our power to do so much more, and that we practice a kind of passive-aggressive violence on the Third World. We do this by, for example, demonizing tobacco as poison here while promoting cigarettes in Asia; inflating produce prices by paying farmers not to grow food as millions go hungry worldwide; skimping on quality and then imposing tariffs on foreign products made better or cheaper than our own; padding corporate profits through Third World sweatshops; letting drug companies stand by as millions die of AIDS in Africa to keep prices up on lifesaving drugs; and on and on. We do, upon reaching a very high comfort level, mostly choose to go from ten to eleven instead of helping another guy far away go from zero to

Education being a change of behavior as a result of experience brings about wisdom and knowledge. While knowledge comes from what we read or study, wisdom comes from what we observe and experience.The purpose of education is not to affect negatively but to positively affect. When I see people using whatever wisdom or knowledge they have to cheat, I see an abuse of education all borne out of ignorance.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain.

There is no one that cannot make an impact in this world.

Willingly or not we come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting." by Primo Levi in Drowned

I will not keep quiet until a revolution is started to fight ignorance and superstitions in the church of the lord Jesus Christ and in the nation of my birth.

The people perish due to lack of understanding.

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Constantly exposing yourself to popular culture and the mass media will ultimately shape your reality tunnel in ways that are not necessarily conducive to achieving your Soul Purpose and Life Calling. Modern society has generally ‘lost the plot’. Slavishly following its false gods and idols makes no sense in a spiritually aware life.

Just an emotional response of sentiments will only lead to tiredness and weariness.

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits

To be enslaved then, you needed to be ignorant. To be enslaved today, you need to be knowledgeable.

It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.

The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil.

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

You need to discover something that will impact humanity.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

It’s not as if there’s an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, ‘There’s my ignorance; it’s about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.

There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Ignorance is the supreme oppressor.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before." He got out of bed."It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.""Let me alone," said Mildred. "I didn't do anyt