Ignorance Quotes - Page 14

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

Israelmore Ayivor

Life without knowing your destiny leads to “rat races”, depression and frustration, and attempt to commit suicide

Sunday Adelaja

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Garth Stein

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Mark Slouka

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with the blind worship of the ignoble past, with the idea that all the great and good are dead, that the living are totally depraved, that all pleasures are sins, that sighs and groans are alone pleasing to God, that thought is dangerous, that intellectual courage is a crime, that cowardice is a virtue, that a certain belief is necessary to secure salvation, that to carry a cross in this world will give us a palm in the next, and that we must allow some priest to be the pilot of our souls.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?

Lionel Suggs

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Gordon W. Allport

I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stairs go around and around inside a church tower; or perhaps it is a minaret? The whorls of the staircase grow narrower and narrower, but as there are so many people behind there is no longer any possibility of turning around or even stopping. The pressure from behind foeces me on. The staircase suddenly stops at a garbage chute in the wall. When i open the hatch and squeeze my way through the hole, i find myself on the outside of the tower. The rope has dissappeared. It is totally dark. I cling on to the slippery, icy wall of the tower while vainly trying to find a foothold in the emptiness.

Sven Lindqvist

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Raheel Farooq

Mark, trying his best to distance himself from the cruel and pathetic 21st century, hadn’t listened to the news reports, not even when the dark green jeeps and helicopters showed up in town, men dressed in identical uniforms, just like in school, always standing with stony faces, setting up shelters and warning signals and food storage boxes. And as the public service announcements and racist propaganda bloomed onto the screens in every classroom, Mark’s only observation was that the United States still had such a long way to go. When times were dire, they resorted to using inaccurate stereotypes and ignorance as a weapon, with an impressionable society always willing to believe without further question.

Rebecca McNutt

Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.

Sunday Adelaja

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Reuben Blades

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.

Anthon St. Maarten

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

Maya Angelou

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they're talking about.

Rebecca Solnit

I miss home. I miss ignorance. I've seen a beauty I can't fathom in the Aquifer, and met a girl who moves my heart.

Jonathan Friesen

What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.

Diane Samuels

if you cannot ponder to wonder, you will always wonder to ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Where ignorance prevails, there an opportunity exists.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

you are trained for job but you are born to work.Exert then your energy in the right proportion on the most vital matters

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

When people give you disappointment, don't worry; they are only showing you this- appointment. Just look and see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Comfort blindfolds; difficulty brings realization.Pain reveals; disappointments plant trigger of actions.Fear controls; ignorance deceives.Anger torments; silence keeps.Misunderstanding divides; love joins.Laughter starts; deception suspects.Frowning cautions; sorrow remembers.Purposefulness moves; idleness wastes.When you live in comfort, ponder.When you live in pain, take lessons.When life goes up, plant your feet and appreciate the height.When life goes down, envision the height and dare to get there with tenacity. Life is how you take and manage things. Be a manager of things or things shall be your manager

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The world of reality exists. The world of fantasy exists. The great boundary between the world of reality and the world of fantasy is the boundary of pleasure and fallacy. So many people enter into the world of realities through the the gate of betrayal and pain of the world of fantasies. If you live in the world of fantasies, ponder!If you live in the world of realities, learn and use your lessons.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Osho Samuel Adetunji

You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Cockiness – the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance – is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand.

Kilroy J. Oldster

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In spite of being complicated people choose superstitions over common sense.

Amit Kalantri

Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is orgasmic.

Nityananda Das

Perhaps it's better to find joy in the rubble rather than celebrate in ignorance.

Catherine Jones Payne

Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

Steve Jones

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

Ray Bradbury

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

H.L. Mencken

Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

T.F. Hodge

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

Criss Jami

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.

Caitlyn Paige

Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation.

Thomm Quackenbush

We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality

Sunday Adelaja

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Isaac Watts

People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.

Suzy Kassem

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

Edmund Burke

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

Criss Jami

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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