Top 1200 Blissful Ignorance Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.

I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great.

History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.

Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

You feel so happy about that, that you feel loving towards these poor being who are suffering in their separateness, and their alienation Then have the problem of how to help them get free, because just by your knowing that they're essentially free, that doesn't free them. Just by your being blissful, it doesn't release them from their knot of separation and false self absolutization.

C++ is a language strongly optimized for liars and people who go by guesswork and ignorance.

Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the planets, you need to pass through at least Poland, Prussia, and Turkey, and you'd probably get stamps in your passport from a few of the other great powers. Then as you get closer to the world, you arrive at a point, in the continually shifting carriage space over the countries, where this complexity has to give way or fail. And so you arrive in the blissful lubrication of neutral orbital territory.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.

Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance.

All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.

Ignorance is the biggest problem of all for the ocean - and for many other things as well.