All Quotes By Tag: Ignorance

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.”

“Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.”

“What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?”

“When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.”

“Ignorance kills first.Then arrogance.”

“Don’t join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don’t be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value.”

“The world does not know how to concentrate on working.”

“The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.”

“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.”

“This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from this generation.”

“If we could be humble enough to submit our passions, sentiments and even weaknesses to God Almighty, he would successfully convert them to something positive that would eventually glorify Him.”

“You would suffer for many things in life and misplaced priority is one of them.”

“I spend my day in one of three fundamental positions: sitting down, laying down or standing up. And if I’m at all interested in making any progress in life, I might take a moment and consider the fact that two-thirds of these begin and end in the same place.”

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those…of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.”

“Progress had not invaded, science had not enlightened, the little hamlet of Pieuvrot, in Brittany. They were a simple, ignorant, superstitious set who lived there, and the luxuries of civilization were known to them as little as its learning. They toiled hard all the week on the ungrateful soil that yielded them but a bare subsistence in return; they went regularly to mass in the little rock-set chapel on Sundays and saint’s days; believed implicitly all that monsieur le cure said to them, and many things which he did not say; and they took all the unknown, not as magnificent but as diabolical”