All Quotes By Tag: Ignorance
“The understanding of knowledge that increases intoxication (of ‘I Know’) is terrible ignorance. Intoxication (of ‘I know’) is dissolved with (right) knowledge.”
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“When all the circumstances come together and the work gets done, it is called prarabdha (ordained effect of previous lives causes). And when the circumstances come together through which the work is being done, the dhyan (spontaneous inner intents) that arises at that time, is called purushartha (self effort; new causes of next life).”
“Scriptures are instruments, and to know how to use these instruments is itself a science. One has wandered for infinite lives because of not knowing this science!”
“You can’t compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person’s upbringing and diagnosis.”
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“How would you ever come to know God’s name for that star? – You wouldn’t, He holds it close, the boy said. It’s a thing you’ll never know. It’s a lesson that sometimes we’re meant to settle for ignorance. Right there’s what mostly comes of knowledge [boy tips his chin at the battlefield]”
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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
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“Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.”
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“Knowledge is courage; understanding brings calmness and humility”
“Education being a change of behavior as a result of experience brings about wisdom and knowledge. While knowledge comes from what we read or study, wisdom comes from what we observe and experience.The purpose of education is not to affect negatively but to positively affect. When I see people using whatever wisdom or knowledge they have to cheat, I see an abuse of education all borne out of ignorance.”
“Ignorance doesn’t lead to salvation, nor does knowledge pave the way to sin. – Cinda Williams Chima”
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“Common sense is one of the most unused commodities available to man.”
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“Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from severalpieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to myown governing method, ignorance.”
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“It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.”
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“…were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with common and vulgar capacities, nor be very acceptable to the singular and excellent sort of men; the first would not understand them enough, and the last too much; and so they may hover in the middle region.”
“Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.”