It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself._x000D_ _x000D_ People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?
Interpretation
Admitting ignorance can be a strength, but it should lead to learning rather than remaining uninformed.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing one's own ignorance as an opportunity for growth and knowledge. While it is commendable to admit when we do not know something, the quote warns against the danger of complacency in ignorance, suggesting that one should strive to seek understanding instead of accepting ignorance as a final state.
In practice
During a discussion about ethics where someone expresses uncertainty about their moral stance.
No educated person believes the Adam and Eve myth nowadays, but it's surprising how many parents think that it's somehow fun to pass on this falsehood to their children...I would want to argue that the truth of evolution is more interesting and more poetic
If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worst than ignorant, they are the deluded to the point of perversity.
The population of the U.S. is nearly 300 million, including many of the best educated, most talented, most resourceful, humane people on earth. By almost any measure of civilised attainment, from Nobel prize-counts on down, the U.S. leads the world by miles.
When you make machines that are capable of obeying instructions slavishly, and among those instructions are 'duplicate me' instructions, then of course the system is wide open to exploitation by parasites.
Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State in an Islamic region. In view of all that the Jews had been through, it must have seemed a fair and humane solution. Probably deep familiarity with the Old Testament had given the European and American decision-makers some sort of idea that this really was the historic homeland of the Jews.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.
Imagination is the primary gift of human consciousness.
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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