Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
At times you may feel yourself to be the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities. Try not to judge them - things aren't always what they seem. And it could be worse. You could be them!
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Fear always springs from ignorance
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Ignorance makes us believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches us that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance.
What we see today is not the fruit of chance but the fruit of seeds planted in the past. Seeds of peace planted now will create a life of peace in the future.
In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.
It is extroversion that wastes our energy and makes us feel weak. In a state of introversion we think less and speak less. We then have the power to put into action whatever we think and whatever we need to do.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.
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