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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.Short Knowledge
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.Short Truth
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.Short Growth
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?Short
Invasion of ignorance is more dangerous than any external invaderShort One liners
If you really know the pain of ignorance, then a Master arises. You don't have to look for Him.Short Pain
Ignorance allows you to explore everything. But you get trapped by what you think you knowShort
By itself, the reality is simple. It is ignorance that makes it complex.Short Reality
Fear and ignorance are always together. Knowing releases one from fear.Short Fear Knowing
Making assumptions about something that you do not know is a sure way to remain ignorant.Short
We're All Equal in Our Infinite IgnoranceShort
All ignorance Quotes ⇑
Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.Education
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.Philosophy Evil Understanding
To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.Wisdom Knowledge
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.Intelligence World
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.Mistake Kindness Silence Strength
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.Wisdom
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Science Knowledge
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.Problems Knowledge Knowing
For one moment if you forget that you are mortal, ignorance will sprout, if you forget for a long time, it will bear fruit.Philosophy Truth Wisdom Humor
If you jump off a tall building You will see it will be very blissful till you hit the ground, ignorance is bliss till you get smashed. In that small period it's wonderfulFunny Life Wisdom Moment
Evil is neither a quality nor is it an act, it is a consequence of ignorance. The most horrendous things happen not because somebody is evil, but because he is ignorant. So you cannot destroy evil, you just have to bring knowing and awareness.Evil Knowing
The greatest sin is ignorance — not knowing what life is all about. And the greatest virtue is wisdom — to know the meaning and purpose of life and its Creator... that we are one with Him, is wisdomLife Wisdom Knowing
Refuse to be bound by karma; it is an old superstition of the ignorant to believe you cannot change your destiny.Change Belief
Ignorance is the supreme disease. When one banishes ignorance he has also banished the causes of all physical, mental, and spiritual disease.
Of all qualities the purest is wisdom. Its unpollutable flame of light is the only effective adversary of darkness, ignoranceWisdom Darkness
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.Truth People
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.Learning
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.Truth Wisdom
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.Memory Suffering
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.Humor Knowledge
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.Men Understanding
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'Politics Knowledge
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.Heart Soul Memory
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.Death Life Thinking Man
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.Religion Understanding
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.Thought Thinking
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.History Knowledge
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.Intelligence
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.Freedom Expectation
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.World
if the process of dividing life into proper compartments doesn't mean much to you anymore, you want to know the timelessness of life, the boundless nature of what this is, then you need to be little bit set on fire. nice logic or petty emotions won't do it. They don't magnify the possibility of moving from a limited state of ignorance to an unlimited stateSpirituality Limitation Possibility
Our knowledge however great it is, compared to this cosmos is just a minuscule, so if you identify with that minuscule you will become a minuscule, our ignorance is boundless, we always identify with our ignorance, we always identify with what we do not know, so that we are a constant expansionKnowledge
You cannot admit that 'I do not know' because you have not realized the immensity of 'I do not know.' 'I do not know' is the biggest thing that can happen to you in your lifeLife Opportunity Knowledge Possibility
Ignorance is not a solution nor is it a bliss. Ignorance protects you from suffering a few things but suffering will accumulate and come to you in large scale at some point.Suffering
When you truly realize that you do not know, there will be no prejudice and no judgment in you. You will just become a being
There is no such thing as evil. There is enlightenment, there is ignorance - that is allEvil
All activities are carried out by the three modes of material nature. But in ignorance, the soul, deluded by false identification with the body, thinks itself to be the doer.Nature Philosophy Soul Spirituality
All you have to do to overcome your trials is to resurrect your consciousness from the environment of spiritual ignoranceConsciousness Suffering
Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom. The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more has been fired at him than a blank cartridgeDeath Wisdom Pain
Beloved Divine Mother, hide no more. Destroy the wall of my ignorance, and appear unto me in all Thy splendor.God
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.Memory
One who understands the magnitude of one's ignorance, becomes a seeker. A seeker, unlike a believer, can never be in conflict with anybody
There is no such thing as knowing. Either you come to terms with your ignorance or you struggle with it.Knowing
To be born in a physical body at all is a clue that man is in soul ignorance and has not realized his identity as the formless Spirit.Soul Body
Physical sickness is due to different forms of toxic conditions, infectious diseases, and accidents. Mental sickness is caused by fear, worry, anger, and similar emotional inharmonies. Soul sickness is due to man's ignorance of his true relationship with God.Spirituality
Do not overeat. Most persons die as a result of greediness and of ignorance of right dietary habits.Habit
The truth is, only fools are attached to this world. “Fools” are those who live in ignorance, those to whom the world is real because they think it is the only way of life.Truth
The practice of introspection helps people in freeing their soul and will from ignorance, undesirable environmental influences, slavish customs, bad habits, and entanglements, by teaching them to understand and develop all the possibilities of their real soul nature, and by pointing out and eliminating their bad habits and tendenciesHabit
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. 
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded. 
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. 
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. 
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. 
True religion are those immutable principles that protect man permanently from the threefold suffering of disease, unhappiness, and ignorance 
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. 
If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. 
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. 
If the pain of ignorance bothers you, you have become spiritual 
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. 
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. 
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? 
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears. 
To ignore mortality of man is ignorance 
Invasion of ignorance is more dangerous than any external invader 
If you really know the pain of ignorance, then a Master arises. You don't have to look for Him. 
Ignorance allows you to explore everything. But you get trapped by what you think you know 
It is the pain of ignorance which makes one into a seeker 
Making assumptions about something that you do not know is a sure way to remain ignorant. 
Enlightenment means borderless ignorance 
We're All Equal in Our Infinite Ignorance 
Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
For one moment if you forget that you are mortal, ignorance will sprout, if you forget for a long time, it will bear fruit.
If you jump off a tall building You will see it will be very blissful till you hit the ground, ignorance is bliss till you get smashed. In that small period it's wonderful
Evil is neither a quality nor is it an act, it is a consequence of ignorance. The most horrendous things happen not because somebody is evil, but because he is ignorant. So you cannot destroy evil, you just have to bring knowing and awareness.
The greatest sin is ignorance — not knowing what life is all about. And the greatest virtue is wisdom — to know the meaning and purpose of life and its Creator... that we are one with Him, is wisdom
Refuse to be bound by karma; it is an old superstition of the ignorant to believe you cannot change your destiny.
Ignorance is the supreme disease. When one banishes ignorance he has also banished the causes of all physical, mental, and spiritual disease.
Of all qualities the purest is wisdom. Its unpollutable flame of light is the only effective adversary of darkness, ignorance
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he doesn't know when he's leaving, yet he walks on the earth thinking he knows everything.
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
if the process of dividing life into proper compartments doesn't mean much to you anymore, you want to know the timelessness of life, the boundless nature of what this is, then you need to be little bit set on fire. nice logic or petty emotions won't do it. They don't magnify the possibility of moving from a limited state of ignorance to an unlimited state
Our knowledge however great it is, compared to this cosmos is just a minuscule, so if you identify with that minuscule you will become a minuscule, our ignorance is boundless, we always identify with our ignorance, we always identify with what we do not know, so that we are a constant expansion
You cannot admit that 'I do not know' because you have not realized the immensity of 'I do not know.' 'I do not know' is the biggest thing that can happen to you in your life
If ignorance doesn't bring suffering to you, why would you seek enlightenment?
Ignorance is not a solution nor is it a bliss. Ignorance protects you from suffering a few things but suffering will accumulate and come to you in large scale at some point.
When you truly realize that you do not know, there will be no prejudice and no judgment in you. You will just become a being
There is no such thing as evil. There is enlightenment, there is ignorance - that is all
All activities are carried out by the three modes of material nature. But in ignorance, the soul, deluded by false identification with the body, thinks itself to be the doer.
All you have to do to overcome your trials is to resurrect your consciousness from the environment of spiritual ignorance
Pain is a prod to remembrance. The way of escape is through wisdom. The tragedy of death is unreal; those who shudder at it are like an ignorant actor who dies of fright on the stage when nothing more has been fired at him than a blank cartridge
Beloved Divine Mother, hide no more. Destroy the wall of my ignorance, and appear unto me in all Thy splendor.
There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.
One who understands the magnitude of one's ignorance, becomes a seeker. A seeker, unlike a believer, can never be in conflict with anybody
There is no such thing as knowing. Either you come to terms with your ignorance or you struggle with it.
To be born in a physical body at all is a clue that man is in soul ignorance and has not realized his identity as the formless Spirit.
Physical sickness is due to different forms of toxic conditions, infectious diseases, and accidents. Mental sickness is caused by fear, worry, anger, and similar emotional inharmonies. Soul sickness is due to man's ignorance of his true relationship with God.
Do not overeat. Most persons die as a result of greediness and of ignorance of right dietary habits.
The truth is, only fools are attached to this world. “Fools” are those who live in ignorance, those to whom the world is real because they think it is the only way of life.
The practice of introspection helps people in freeing their soul and will from ignorance, undesirable environmental influences, slavish customs, bad habits, and entanglements, by teaching them to understand and develop all the possibilities of their real soul nature, and by pointing out and eliminating their bad habits and tendencies