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Ignorance Quotes


"The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it."


"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."



"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."


"Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome, stupidity is much harder."


"You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets."


"Ignorance is the supreme oppressor."


"Conscientious stupidity is a religion for most. Many will deny it, but it's those same people that find it easier to ignore the truth. This religion can only be followed by their humble ignorance. It's safe to assume, that this religion is an illusion of knowledge."



"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."


"Ignore ignorance. The ultimate way to deal with men with ignorant mentality who are ignorance of your purpose on earth is to ignore their ignorance, capitalize on their ignorance and let them appreciate your purpose in awe and admiration."


"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"


"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."


"If God created great things with a point of vulnerability, it would lie in the reality that great things die in the hands of great ignorance."



"All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance."


"This is the eternal challenge with ignorance - ignorance can't see itself."


"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."



"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."


"The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well."


"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
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