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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
I think humility - which I think is a very good value to adopt - is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance.
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.
Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.
The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance
The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.
For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.
There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.
Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.
Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.
All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.