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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life's real lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Life is a Book of Riddles,
with the Real Lessons Writ Small in its Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smell the smells, feel the fear,
and smile at the incoherent way
life runs us in circles
while inscribing the real lessons
in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion,
for the real and for the truth.
- Abraham Maslow
This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
- A Course in Miracles
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
- Napoleon Hill (author of the classic Think and Grow Rich)
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The real lessons from the book of life
are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
We tell the real truth of our life
by the stories we repeatedly tell.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is real is beyond all reach.
- Julian Green
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The making of friends, who are real friends,
is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
- Edward Everett Hale
Each one has to find his peace from within.
And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Real friendships among men are so rare
that when they occur they are famous.
- Clarence Day
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
All that is real is seen with the heart.
- Vivian Greene
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
The Book of Life is a Book of Riddles,
with its Real Lessons Writ Small in the Margins.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A real friend is one who walks in
when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
If we are to teach real peace in this world,
and if we are to carry on a real war against war,
we shall have to begin with the children.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I do not wish to treat friendships daintily,
but with roughest courage.
When they are real, they are
not glass threads or frost-work,
but the solidest thing we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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