Best ignorance & born Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.”

Way Kind Joy Born Wonder Novel Written Ignorance Sorrow Madness Psychotic

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.”

Men Wells Persons States Use Dies Born Perfect Fire Ignorance Broken Pot Mud Potters Born Again Perfect Man True Knowledge

Book:Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.”

Men Littles Long Enough Hands Born Ignorance Tyranny Bondage Whips Resent

Book:The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

Source: The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two

“The great Roman statesman Cicero observed that, 'Not to know what happened before one was born is to be always a child.' In our ignorance of the values that form part of our history and heritage, we Americans have become perpetual children.”

Knows Children Form Values Born Happened Ignorance Heritage Perpetual Statesmen

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves.”

Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays

“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Ifs Character Born Moral Achieve Ignorance Habit Ideals Weak Disposition Good Character Weak Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Looks Persons Able Desire Born Chance Ignorance

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception.”

Order Born Ignorance Perception Including Remove Affliction

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.”

Children Born Ignorance Ought Creatures Instruments Curiosity Busy Useless Dull Remove Appetite Be Encouraged

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)

“Human values are born with man. They are not got from outside. Man in his ignorance is not aware of these values. when man sheds his ignorance, he will experience his divine nature.”

Men Humans Values Born Ignorance Divine Shed Human Values Divine Nature

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition. All laws defining and punishing blasphemy - making it a crime to give your honest ideas about the Bible, or to laugh at the ignorance of the ancient Jews, or to enjoy yourself on the Sabbath, or to give your opinion of Jehovah, were passed by impudent bigots, and should be at once repealed by honest men. An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.”

Light Sides Born Darkness Ignorance Shadow Unity Absence Collectives Shadow Side

Author:John Hagelin

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.”

People World Light Lasts Peace Born Darkness Mankind Ignorance Messages Islam Chosen Celebrate Messengers Ignorance And Fear

Author:Cat Stevens

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”

Humans Children Political Born Records Ignorance Ignorant Human Life Ancestor Woven Family History

Book:Brutus

Source: Brutus

“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”

Made Desire Born Natural Effort Learning Study Ignorance Achievement Advantage Painful Made It Realization Ease Acquire Possessed

Author:Confucius

“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.”

Mind Self Born Ignorance Duty Temptation Deception Rise Above Owing

Author:Sivananda

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.”

May Nations Born Ignorance Towns Fortune Boredom Bigotry Quantity Strokes Good Fortune Backbone

Author:Gore Vidal

“I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.”

Men Way Humans Self Eye Fear Born Human Beings Ignorance Blind Folly Apartment Loathing Self Loathing Blind Man

Author:Dean Koontz

“Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.”

“We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.”

World Humans Facts Universe Parent Born Human Beings Simple Existence Dying Ignorance Blind Longing Injustice Indifference Midst Labyrinth Rigour Heartlessness Simple Beauty

Author:Ben Okri

“To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to return step by step to imbecility, from the time of lisping to that of doting; to live among knaves and charlatans of all kinds; to die between one man who takes your pulse and another who troubles your head; never to know where you come from, why you come and where you are going! That is what is called the most important gift of our parents and nature. Life.”

“[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.”

Should Sometimes Law Science Order Social Born Justice Mankind Dangerous Ignorance Accounts Relation Errors Ignorant Deceiving Maxims Social Order True Relation

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

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