Ignorance Quotes - Page 27

If there’s one thing that’s irrefutably absurd, it’s believing that we can separate intelligence from wisdom and still have it be intelligence.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Auliq-Ice

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mystics reign where lacks true education.

It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

St. Francis of assisi

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

Dan Brown

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Anyone with half a mind could see that," said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. "Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.

Terry Pratchett

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Adedayo kingjerry

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Carson McCullers

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

Phyllis McGinley

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

all appears to change when we change

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

Anthony de Mello

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Anthony de Mello

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear.

William Shakespeare

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Confucius

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

Brandon Sanderson

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Joe Abercrombie

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

It takes a very long time to become young.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

You need to discover something that will impact humanity.

Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.

Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.

When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance.

It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.

A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.

When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.

When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.

Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.

In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.

Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.

The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.

When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.

You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.

After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.

It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.

To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.

A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.

You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.

For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.

Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.

Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.

Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.

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