As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance..

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes ….

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson..

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolen….

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence..

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them..

The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity..

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think..

Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignoranc….

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior..

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false stand….

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement..

It is a cause of shame to any member of the human race to be a member of the same species some of whose members could vote for any candidate for pres….

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life..

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

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfa….

There's a willful ignorance. We indulge people who are willfully misrepresenting the facts. I don't think those [anti-choice] congresspeople are as m….

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss..

I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, de….

Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundles….

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge..