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“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”

Years Believe Kind States Sound Forget Rights Ignorance Customers Doctrine Obliged States Rights Sound Doctrine

Author:John Shelton Reed

“I can assure you, as a practitioner of Buddhism, that there are ten thousand states of mind, at least, give or take a few billion.”

World Giving Mind I Can States Ignorance Buddhism Thousand Ten Billions State Of Mind Other Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Everything is perception. A hallucination is a perception of a certain reality. It is a perception of a certain state of mind.”

Mind States Reality Certain Awareness Ignorance Buddhism Perception State Of Mind Hallucinations

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.”

Long States United United States Ignorance Red Tradition Bloodlust

Author:Jane Smiley

“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.”

Ifs Years States Stories Opinion Novel Ignorance Horse Harder Mysterious Observation Progressive

Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“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

“Life isn't complicated. The reason it appears complicated to you is because you are in a very distorted state of mind. That's the basic premise of Buddhism - that you're in a very distorted state of mind.”

Mind States Reason Ignorance Buddhism Complicated State Of Mind Premises

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Samsara is the world appearance, the cycle of rebirth, the physically manifest universes and states of mind that you perceive through the medium of ego.”

World Mind States Universe Ignorance Ego Appearance Mediums Perceive Cycles Manifest State Of Mind Rebirth Samsara

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You can be in a state of mind for a few seconds and forget that you were ever in any other state of mind. That's what we mean by illusion.”

Mind Mean States Forget Ignorance Illusion Seconds State Of Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.”

People World Has Beens States Purpose Church United Known Information Ignorance Ought Mass Bible Tyranny Suspects Introduction Church And State

Book:The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar

“To be ignorant of one's own ignorance is to be in an unprogressive, uninspired state of existence.”

States Existence Ignorance Ignorant Uninspired

Author:David O. McKay

“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.”

“Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!”

Knows Should States Sin Lord Knowledge Ignorance Fairs Foundation Envy Proof Ruins Obedience Forbidden Suspicious Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 2

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

“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

“I don't believe there is one woman within the confines of this state who does not believe in birth control. I never met one. That is, I never met one who thought that she should be kept in ignorance of contraceptive methods. Many I have met who valued the knowledge they possessed, but thought there were certain other classes who would be better kept in ignorance. The old would protect the young. The rich would keep the poor in ignorance. The good would keep their knowledge from the bad, the strong from the weak.”

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution