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No one can please a man who is not at peace with himself.

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

No one has been able to attain the state of ‘Jitendriya-Jin’ (one who has attained victory over all senses) through the medium of the body complex. One can only become Jitendriya-Jin when he attains the Knowledge of the Self. The senses can never be conquered as long as there is ignorance of the Self, because the nature of the senses is to charge and discharge. Conquer one and another erupts.

Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same.

Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment... have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own. [Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 - Writings 26:484--89]

Nothing in the whole world is more dangerous than ignorance.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.

Nothing will make you look like an idiot faster than the fact that you don't know what you doing.

Not knowing how venom kills does not take away the usefulness of knowing that it does.

Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder

Not until you change your lens, true beauty shall always look ugly to you!

Now is the time that we make conscientious efforts towards becoming a real wise species, free from all sorts of bigotry, mysticism and sectarianism.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

NOTE: If Donald Trump continues to be stupid enough to respond to everyone who states the obvious fact that he is ignorant, he will starve to death because he won't have time to eat.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Oh. Yes. He's very bright. But the world, poor world, was as over-burdened with cleverness as with stupidity, and in a sense (lacking this), did they not amount to the very same thing? Oh, he's clever, Clare thought, but who's good? Who's good? Who is good?

Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know how to go from dream to its fulfilment

Once we understand that all human values are the result of fictions and myths,we don’t consider them sacrosanct. we are then able to question many beliefs that are believed to be irrefutable. we then move from the darkness of ignorance to the light of wisdom.

Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, struggle and duality; it steals away anxiety, aggression, fear, grief and sorrow; it steals away the debris of anger, hatred, confusion and ignorance, to fill us with the nectar of joy, immortality and life eternal.

Oh superior divine, Take me from fictitious to the factual, Take me from the gloom of ignorance to The illumination of wisdom, And take me from iniquity to integrity.

Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.

Once you realize that the vast majority of people see and know very little, you will rarely be affected when someone speaks ill or well of you.

Once you've seen something that's got nothing to do with you, you can't claim ignorance. But you're still powerless. So at the very least, you want to let yourself feel pity and leave it at that. Those emotions are beautiful and noble, but they're also a cruel and ugly excuse. It's nothing more than an extension of the deceitful youth ideology that I loathe so much.

One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!

One forgets agnan (worldly knowledge) when he remains in Gnan (Knowledge of the Real Self, the Soul). Man can be in only one place.

One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning in a few decades. About the same percentage believe that the world was created a few thousand years ago. If science conflicts with the Bible, so much the worse for science. It would be hard to find an analogue in other societies.

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

One consequence of ignorance is that it misdirects anger.

One of the most deadly causes of destruction of divine destinies is when a leader is failing, but he or she does not know it. Ignorance about your role is a death plot against people's successes.

One time quarrel is tantamount to incurring a loss of five thousand rupees.

One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

One who pretends to be ignorant is better than one who pretends to be wise.

One and all they are driven by the twin engines of ignorance and willful barbarism. You nod, you also are familiar with these two powerful components of our national character, ignorance and willful barbarianism. Yes, everywhere you turn, and even among the most gifted of us, the most extensively educated, these two brute forces of motivation will eventually emerge. The essential information is always missing; sensitivity is a mere veil to self-concern. We are all secret encouragers of ignorance, at heart we are all willful barbarians.

One of the most painful realizations in life is to all of a sudden discover that you had possessed things all along that you never knew you had.

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.

Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated

Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.

On Stupidity - There is no such thing as a foolproof plan. If there are fools about, no plan is proof against them.

Our assumptions of playing "gods" could lead to our own ignorance.

Our anger could become a force of deliverance.

Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.