“The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.” PeopleWealthPleasurePovertyIgnoranceHardship Author:Diogenes
“There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.” CultureWealthPovertySupportGreaterIgnoranceHeritageConsultationWealth Of Knowledge Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib
“But if one Subject giveth Counsell to another, to do anything contrary to the Lawes, whether that Counsell proceed from evil intention, or from ignorance onely, it is punishable by the Common-wealth; because igorance of the Law, is no good excuse, where every man is bound to take notice of the Lawes to which he is subject.” IfsMenLawEvilWealthCommonSubjectsIgnoranceIntentionBoundsExcuseContraryEvery Man Author:Thomas Hobbes
“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.” PeopleSpeakWealthInfluenceIgnoranceGreedIllDuesPunishmentForestsEnjoymentProductiveConsiderationRighteousnessAwardsDevotedSevereFuryRespectableDwellingOwingHermits Author:Chanakya
“Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness.” ThinkingGivingShouldLooksWealthRoomsVirtueConditionsIgnoranceQuietFortunePrivilegeVicesRichesCirclesFreakFlatteryModeratesSuccessionHazardsCaprice Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752 Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.” MenWorldMightLawGivenWealthBusinessTakenIgnoranceWeaknessExcuseDisasterIgnorance Of The Law Author:Walter Russell
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.” MindCertainFoundWealthAnimalIgnoranceLowsAdvantageMarkVicesCrueltyDumbConsistentAnimal RightsNobilityCivilityMeannessAnimal CrueltySplendourAnimal AbuseKindness To AnimalsAbused Animals Author:William Jones
“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.” MenCultureTermWealthEffortPovertyVirtueGreaterIgnoranceDiseaseDegreesLaborIncreaseInstinctHungerVicesImpulseLeisureWealth And Poverty Book:War and Peace Source: War and Peace
“I think China's view of freedom has to do with material wealth and modernity, and the Dalai's Lama view of freedom is liberation in the Buddhist sense, which is freedom from ignorance and freedom from suffering.” ThinkingSufferingWealthViewsIgnoranceMaterialsChinaBuddhistLiberationModernityLamaDalaiMaterial Wealth Author:Pico Iyer
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” IfsThinkingInspirationalTryingHumorSchoolFunnyWealthMoneyEducationKnowledgeLearningStudyTeacherTeachingStudentsIgnoranceHigh SchoolParentingUniversityAtheistEducationalCaringLawyerExpensiveGraduationLiteracyHarvardEducatorTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationCollege EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersKnowledge Is PowerSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationTeacher StudentTeaching LearningChildren LearningGreat TeachingQuality EducationKnowledge EducationEducation And KnowledgeChildren EducationStudents And EducationChildren And EducationEducation And LiteracyFunny CommencementKnowledge And LearningValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningInspirational High School GraduationStupidity And IgnoranceKnowledge And IgnoranceLearning KnowledgeTeaching StudentsTraining And EducationEarly EducationRelated To EducationSchools And TeachersLiteracy And ChildrenLiteracy For ChildrenAim Of EducationCool GraduationEducational ChangeSecondary EducationGraduation Wishes Author:Derek Bok
“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.” PeopleWealthAnimalIgnoranceLowsEvidenceVicesSignificantCrueltyLuxuryAnimal RightsBrutalityAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldIgnobleCruel WorldHuman CrueltyAnimals And Society Author:Alexander von Humboldt
“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.” TwoPastHumanityWealthPowerfulKnowledgeEconomyTakenEnvironmentEconomicCenturySecurityIgnoranceMaterialsDevelopmentComfortEconomicsIgnorantMost PowerfulElitesBrutalOver The PastEconomic DevelopmentPersonal Health Author:Ross Garnaut
“Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money because they feel oppressed by a sense of lack. If people knew their power to generate wealth, they would never fight or hurt each other over money.” PeopleIfsLoveFeelsFightingEvilHurtWealthIgnoranceRootsFoolishMaking MoneyAbundanceOppressedEvil People Author:Alan Cohen
“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.” JobsTurnsOpportunityGrowthWealthPovertyEconomicIgnoranceEqualCreatingResearchEmpowermentEconomicsIncreaseInvestmentDiscriminationTechnologicalGood JobInfrastructureAdvancingEqual OpportunityWorld PovertyCauses Of PovertyEconomic EmpowermentInvestment In Education Author:William J. Clinton