Pure Ignorance Quotes

#1. Non-knowing is not a form of ignorance but a difficult transcendence of knowledge. This is the price that must be paid for an oeuvre to be, at all times, a sort of pure beginning, which makes its creation an exercise in freedom.

Jean Lescure

#2. It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Kathleen Parker

#3. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?

Holbrook Jackson

#4. By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. We no longer need fur for warmth and protection. There are plenty of textiles that provide that today. It's pure whim and vanity to choose to wear fur. It shows a level of ignorance or lack of concern that reflects poorly on the wearer.

Tim Gunn

#7. The actions carried out with ignorance of the Self [agnan bhaav, ignorance intent] is all bondage. Every action done with the awareness of I am pure Soul [gnan bhaav, knowledge intent], will grant liberation.

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Patanjali

#9. I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

Marina Abramovic

#10. It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

Bill Hybels

#11. I've thought about going back to school.

Emily VanCamp

#12. In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

#13. Why was it that cheering expressions were invariably so infuriating?

Lauren Willig

#14. Her ignorance was like standing in pure dark that could be either a closet or a vast, starless night.

Laini Taylor

#15. On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

Gore Vidal

#16. The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Louise Erdrich

#17. The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

Joseph Campbell

#18. I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#19. Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.

Janet Fitch

#20. The greatest impurity is ignorance. Free yourself from it. Be pure.

Gautama Buddha

#21. Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner.
Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater.
Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure.
Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

Sri Chinmoy

#22. An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

John Tukey

#23. Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

Mark Twain

#24. Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#25. There's no such thing as innocence any more," the girl said, "there's only ignorance. You think you are holding on to something pure, but you aren't. You're just ignorant. You are handicapped by everything you don't yet know.

Eleanor Catton

#26. When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted.

Criss Jami