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When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better.
Personal ignorance should be admitted, but it should not be allowed to place limits and bounds on the ways 'and means of revelation.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it’s our job to realize it and get down to business.
We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.
Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.
Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions
Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.
I don't like writing as an expert. I like writing as an amateur. I like writing as an idiot. It's much more fun to start in ignorance.
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
My stories are about humanity, about the challenges of surviving and the constant fight against ignorance, inhumanity and complacency.
Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?
Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda
In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.
Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.
Ignorance and poverty are the best condiments for the great feast of the world, but the inexperienced and poor are never invited to it.
There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way
Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.
I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny-fear, ignorance, bigotry and smear.
It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade, than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.
It is an essential part of the scientific enterprise to admit ignorance, even to exult in ignorance as a challenge to future conquests.
Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.
People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.
Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.
If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.
Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.