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Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

Very frequently we only dream and do so because we do not know how to go from a dream to fulfilment

Vishay (sensual pleasure) is just vishay alone. However when indulging in sensual pleasure, if one has ignorance of the Self, then kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) arises, and if One has Knowledge of the Self, then kashay will not arise.

Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible in their consciousness of being right.

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

Vê-se à vista desarmada, caro senhor, que o aluno Angel é um antropóide mais póide que outra coisa. Solte-o se faz favor nas florestas africanas. Sem bússola, porque ele é capaz de a comer.

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

Watching TV puts your own hell into a different perspective, if that’s what you want. Today I do.

We are all imperfect. We have biases we are blind to seeing. We are ignorant in our own arenas. We have to own our ignorance if we want our apologies to create change.

We are the author of our own destruction.

we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us...

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.” --Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990

We’ are “asang” (the Self is non-attached; free from mind, body, speech). That which does not let you experience ‘this’ is all kusang (negative association; anything that takes you away from the Self, the Pure Soul).

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know—or seem to have, earn, or know.

We are not poor because we do not have money, we are poor because we do not know how to make money.

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.

We are rocked in the tumult, and the awareness of one's own ignorance is a smothering cloak that proves poor armour.

We are slipping back from the age of reason into the mire of mystery, into a world of gods and devils, ghouls and angels. The difference this time is that we have chosen ignorance over knowledge, vapidity over insight, folly over realism. Consequently, we only have ourselves to blame when the rich and powerful take advantage of us.

We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.

We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society.

We become the people who are made by our family and society when we are ignorant of who we are

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

We have all the answers. It is the questions we do not know.

We hate each other because we are ignorant, but love each other because we are wise.

We have to confront ignorance in our nation.

We have to lend our voice to Christ by speaking on His behalf.

We have the mind and the consciousness of the universe. Due to our ignorance, we see the world and our own selves divided and separated into two units. A truly wise person sees the entire world in the self and the self in the world.

We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society.

We have to seek knowledge, and infuse ourselves with so much light that can only come from knowledge.

we know little of the things for which we pray

We live in ignorance in the darkness. But the light of the truth set us free.

We live in this bubble of ignorance. Most people know nothing about history, or the historical context of the traditions they still follow today. People do things without knowing why they're doing them.

We live with the key purpose of receiving the approval of those around us because we don’t know who we are in reality

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance.

We might not be equal in what we know but we are surely equal, in what we do not know.

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections – so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one ignorant word, thought or action), they delay our progress for TRUE CHANGE. Every person, molecule, and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong.

We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development.

We need not know the how and the why to profit from knowing the that.

We never accept the unaccepted, that which makes us uncomfortable. We love to ignore things till they can no longer be ignored.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

What an abyss of ignorance hiding under the guise of love and care!

What a wise man knows is great, what a fool knows is little, and what God knows is infinite. God does not condemn a man for not knowing, but condemns a man for knowing and not doing.

What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.

What could she do, bound as she was by the tyranny of silence? She dared not explain the girl to herself...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that seeing nothing it might avoid Truth...if silence is golden it is also in this case, very expedient.

What causes Conflict? Agnan (Delusionary knowledge, Knowledge other than the True Self).

We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge

We might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.