Quotes About Ignorance And Selfishness

#1. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

Samuel Smiles

#2. The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.

Martin Luther

#3. The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.

M. Scott Peck

#4. Or wasn't this city really the sum of every little selfishness, every ignorance, every act of laziness and mistrust and unkindness ever committed by anybody who lived there,

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Booker T. Washington

#7. ...simplicity is comforting.

Veronica Roth

#8. The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

Samael Aun Weor

#9. Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.

William Jennings Bryan

#10. But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

Chelsey Philpot

#11. Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil
or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

#12. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Gautama Buddha

#13. The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Peter Singer

#14. The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

Najib Mikati

#15. The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#16. In order for us to search out how our listeners' experiences are consistent with biblical truth, we ourselves must begin with the deep conviction that God's statements are always true.

Donald Sunukjian