Ignorance Quotes

If we are not aware of who we are, how will we know where we are going or how we should get there

The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God

If bees die, people will die. Only ignorance never dies! ("Why step out of nature ?")

The failure of a person is wrapped in his ignorance about his strengths.

We work hard to believe that our actions really don’t affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.

mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination

You need to be greedy or ignorant to truly want to live forever.

Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom.

To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.

God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.

One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi - ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).

The Soul’s doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

Attachment-abhorrence is an ‘effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the ‘cause’!

Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.

Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away.

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

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

Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it.

Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

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!

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

She turned to examine Dr. Breed, looking at him with helpless reproach. She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30

Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.

Sports has no bounds, no race, no religion, no caste and no creed. Keep out all this from sports. Sports are pure joy, do not ruin with your ignorance

A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much.

Money is never the cause of all evil, ignorance is!

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

Fantasy and drama appeal to us. They are socially acceptable and make you feel good about yourself. Moreover, you get rewarded for being cleverly ignorant.