#Ignorance

"Do you mean ter tell me,"he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?"Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad."I know some things,"he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff."

"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

"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)"

"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."

"Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?"

"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."

"Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance."

"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."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not."

"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."

"It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated."

"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent."

"Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed."

"Only ignorance excuses stupidity"

"Ignorance is darkness. Knowledge is light. Wisdom is awaken spirit"

"People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy"

"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."