Living In Ignorance Quotes

#1. People are more afraid of being discriminated than living in ignorance.

Robin Sacredfire

#2. You have been cast into a race in which the wind is always at your face and the hounds are always at your heels. And to varying degrees this is true of all life. The difference is that you do not have the privilege of living in ignorance of this essential fact.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Boethius

#4. I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's an extraordinary thought. It's mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can't see the universe for eye liner.

Jostein Gaarder

#5. Imagine living in a world where we no longer believe that war can lead to peace. War can't lead to peace anymore than ignorance can lead to knowledge. War leads to premature death, pain, suffering, hatred, fear and more separation.

Renee Paule

#6. Of all men living [priests] are our greatest enemies. If it were possible, they would extinguish the very light of nature, turn the world into a dungeon, and keep mankind for ever in chains and darkness.

George Berkeley

#7. The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.

Mark Steyn

#8. What you have in hand may be of less essence to knowing and using what you have in hand

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. All mankind lives in a state of terrible ignorance. In the opinion of food addicts, the consumption of cooked food is something quite natural, while nourishment by the laws of nature is an experiment, and a dangerous experiment at that.

Arshavir Ter Hovannessian

#11. Conviviencia - living alongside each other in harmony, whatever their beliefs. For the enemy is not another person who believes in a god. The enemy is ignorance, and people who believe in nothing and care for nothing.

Philippa Gregory

#12. The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance.

Julian Assange

#13. Walking in ignorance is a choice for those who find reality too hard to face.

T.F. Hodge

#14. I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Richard Dreyfuss

#15. It wasn't until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving 'through' life without driving 'in' life. So, I've decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#16. At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things.

Carl Jung

#17. We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

Rajesh Nanoo

#18. Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. One of the big weaknesses of the Conservative Party is not just their ignorance of and lack of effective response to the cost-of-living crisis but a more fundamental error about what makes for success in the 21st century.

Douglas Alexander

#20. I have not written my memoirs for those young people who can only save themselves from falling by spending their youth in ignorance, but for those whom experience of life has rendered proof against being seduced, whom living in the fire has transformed into salamanders.

Giacomo Casanova

#21. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#23. In other living creatures ignorance of self is nature; in man it is vice.

Boethius

#24. the apostles of mediocrity shall always stand to defend mediocrity out of mediocrity

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

T. S. Eliot

#26. By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.

Philip Shepherd

#27. What if?..
What if I am all to see?
What if life is only this? And Ignorance is bliss?
What if love is only pain? And nothing can be gained by living everyday
And there is no better way?
What then?

Melody Carlson

#28. when the uncertainty is known, certainty is guaranteed. Until we unravel the uncertainties of our lives, we shall always be uncertain with the life we live

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah