Explore Quotes on Ignorance

Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.

Knowledge can only be limited. Ignorance is boundless. In recognizing our ignorance, we will touch that which is boundless.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

Believing that what you do not know cannot exist is the crown of ignorance.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker.

You may be ignorant of all the books in the world, and I hope you are, of all the latest theories, but that is not ignorance.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to our advantage to know; in order that we being ignorant of the actual moments of judgment to come, might ever be as it were on guard, and set on the watch-tower of virtue, and so avoid the habits of sin; lest the day of the Lord should come upon us in the midst of our wickedness.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

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

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

In general, 'Buddha' means 'Awakened One', someone who has awakened from the sleep of ignorance and sees things as they really are. A Buddha is a person who is completely free from all faults and mental obstructions. There are many people who have become Buddhas in the past, and many people will become Buddhas in the future.