Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

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

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

I know I'm not the best tennis player there's ever been, but calling me a loser is just ignorance.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

The first reason for people's slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

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