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The Samsara is the movement of life. And you, an individual self, a form, a moment on a wave, are bound.
Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.
Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.
Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.
I never thought that I couldn't do what I set out to do. It wasn't from arrogance; it was from ignorance.
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.
It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
The veil is slowly rising, but as regards innumerable questions we must be content to remain in ignorance.
We should all learn from our experiences, but I don't think hatred is the best way to deal with ignorance.
Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.
You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge.
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.
Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist.
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
It may not be in the constitution, but every American has a god-given right to provinciality and ignorance.
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?
We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.