My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

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

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

Shall ignorance of good and ill Dare to direct the eternal will? Seek virtue, and of that possest, To Providence resign the rest.

What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?

You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance

Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

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