Top 36 Quotes About Ignorance And Enlightenment
#1. Is the basic teaching of Buddhism - on ignorance, deliverance and enlightenment - really life-denying, or is it rather the same kind of life-affirming liberation that we find in the Good News of Redemption, the Gift of the Spirit, and the New Creation?
Thomas Merton
#2. You will eventually face a greater truth, willingly or unwillingly. Those who willingly choose to see a greater truth now are given potential freedom through enlightenment, while those who choose to blind themselves are resigned to slavery through ignorance.
Derek Doepker
#3. There are about 15 million Muslims in the EU. They face ignorance, insult and even persecution. They cannot be wished away. To impose Enlightenment freedoms is self-defeating. Anyway, the Muslims have their own enlightenment.
James Buchan
#4. It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#5. They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of first introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms (Casanova, p.34, Vol 1 Preface).
Giacomo Casanova
#6. Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Sharon M. Draper
#7. To learn, you must be humble. You must be prepared to admit your ignorance. You must allow yourselves to be filled with the vital information presented to you via the skills and dedication of those who have gone before you down the long path to enlightenment.
Paula Brackston
#8. Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.
Gautama Buddha
#9. I am often impressed with those that admit their ignorance, for it is the first step towards breaking out of the prison called freedom.
Lionel Suggs
#10. Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Rajneesh
#11. Mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.
James Allen
#12. Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson
#13. To be ignorant is to be in the dark;
to be wise is to be in the light.
An illiterate person is disabled intellectually;
an unenlightened person is handicapped spiritually.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Sometimes it's good to let people swim in ocean of ignorance and let them struggle to the shores of enlightenment.
Uzoma Nnadi
#15. Everyone is afraid of enlightenment, knowledge, completion. People are afraid of being exposed.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Ignorance causes pain, but awareness creates happiness. Therefore, look for enlightenment every day.
Linda Alfiori
#17. There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time
the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.
Carson McCullers
#18. Do not feel that you are destined to enlightenment in this life. You have no idea. This is an illusion of selfhood. It's gross ignorance and egotism.
Frederick Lenz
#20. The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.
Deepak Chopra
#21. There exist three poisons in life: desire, anger, and ignorance. One poison is the root of the other two. To attain enlightenment, you must swallow the root of your poisons, so that you die. You die many times to attain the enlightenment of Buddha.
H.S. Kim
#23. Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible.
M.T. Dismuke
#24. He tapped into the Zen of ignorance, the enlightenment of absurdity.
Christopher Moore
#25. An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Frederick Lenz
#27. In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.
Ian Gardner
#28. There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.
Jaggi Vasudev
#29. They were in a position of total ignorance and people in that position often died without being enlightened.
Eoin Colfer
#30. If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment.
D.T. Suzuki
#31. Reality is not the world as you perceive it. Reality is the world perceived through enlightenment. It's the same world; but it's not the same world.
Frederick Lenz
#32. Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human ... It is the end of ignorance.
Lama Surya Das
#33. If ignorance is bliss, than knowledge is blissful enlightenment or a serious pain in the butt - depends on how I feel on any particular day!
M.P. Sharma
#35. Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee Masters
#36. Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
Patrick Rothfuss
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