#Ignorance

"Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death."

"He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked."

"Until ignorance, of one’s own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."

"When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today."

"We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors."

"We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know."

"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

"The people need to know that the people need to know. And I’m just the man to let them know that they need to know. However, what they need to know, I do not know."

"Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves."

"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed if not annihilated; scotched, if not slain."

"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation."

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."

"I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake ofdivine vanity."

"The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)"

"There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this."

"At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you."

"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance."

"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)"