Best ignorance & fall Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We fall into states of illusion - we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations, political movements, philosophies, religions, the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body.”

States Philosophy Body Pain Political Desire Fall Forget Pleasure Movement Ignorance Illusion Caught Frustration Caught Up Political Movements

Author:Frederick Lenz

“So when we wake from the ignorance of this world, the dream of existence, all of the experiences that we have ever had fall away. The ideas of life and death, of rebirth, of reincarnation, karma, God, truth, knowledge - all these things fall away.”

World Ideas Dream Fall Existence This World Ignorance Yoga Karma Life And Death Reincarnation Rebirth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.”

People Ifs Government Choices Fall Left Danger Ignorance Ignorant Enlightened Providence Vicious

Book:The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

Source: The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition

“... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding of that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.”

“When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. All the world conspires to oppose and contradict me; though such is my weakness, that I feel all my opinions loosen and fall of themselves, when unsupported by the approbation of others.”

World Feels Eye Turns Fall Opinion Doubt Ignorance Weakness Inward

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.”

Men Wells Dies Fall Known Ignorance

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.”

Believe Fall Social Causes Religious Grace Ignorance Pride Miracle Jew Social Graces

Author:Voltaire

“Today the intelligence of the world denies the miraculous. Ignorance is the soil of the supernatural. The foundation of Christianity has crumbled, has disappeared, and the entire fabric must fall. The natural is true. The miraculous is false.”

World Today Fall Natural Christianity Ignorance Foundation Deny Soil Fabric Miraculous

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.”

Knows Giving Believe Persons Fall Ignorance Defense Castles Fall Back Dogmatism

Author:Bob Altemeyer

“My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.”

Men Fall Wise Ignorance Proof Ignorant Reasoning Convince

Author:Khalil Gibran

“One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.”

Persons Ideas Purpose Fall Literature Ignorance Battle Institutions Wiser Prudence Columns

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.”

Men World Should Hard Fall Wish Poverty Ignorance Disease Rain Hunger Burden Nuclear Catastrophe

Author:Haile Selassie

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

Way Helping Action Earth Beautiful Faces Life Is Fall Compassion Ignorance Comfort Misery Degradation Fall Back Beautiful Earth

Book:George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

Source: George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus

“We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.”

May Use Pain Fall Force Nature Study Air Ignorance Dignity Sticks Tolerance Granted Intimacy Staring Harsh Knuckles

Book:The Illustrated West with the Night

Source: The Illustrated West with the Night

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”

“To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.”

Men Should May Hands Light Truth Action Law Time Fall Waiting Change Results Wonder Ignorance Masters Periods Victim Affair Accomplish Enthusiasm Rising Tides Accord Repose Beacons Beneficence

Author:H. P. Blavatsky

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