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When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
Quote by -Dalai Lama
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
Quote by -Aristotle
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Quote by -Martin Luther King
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Quote by -Booker T Washington
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Quote by -Freddie Mercury
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
Quote by -Gilbert K Chesterton
“I began to sense that a big part of our problem is simple ignorance of what the oldest cultures have to teach.”
Quote by -Gloria Steinem
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?
Quote by -Maya Angelou
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
Quote by -Maya Angelou
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."
Quote by -Malala Yousafzai
"Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of imposing on the ignorance or credulity of others so frequently occur; so many immediate evils are"
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon..."
Quote by -Chaim Potok
"Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."
Quote by -Carl Sagan
"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."
Quote by -David Sedaris
“What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The search for the exotic, the strange, the unusual, the uncommon has often taken the form of pilgrimages, of turning away from the world, the 'Journey to the East,' to another country or to a different religion. The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -- that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred -- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”
Quote by -Abraham Maslow
“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.”
Quote by -Adam Smith
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding