"We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know."
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"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
"... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
"Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge."
"When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal."
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."
"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)"
"Ignorance is the parent of fear."
"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves."
"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!"
"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
"A lion of truth never assumes anything without validity. Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother."
"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."
"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."
"Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously."
"Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle."
"he who will not economize will have to agonize"
"Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance."
"Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free."
"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."