Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: life patience questions ignorance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: ignorance reading learning intelligence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: ignorance error choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. —George Santayana More about this quote Tags: ignorance wrong rejection deny Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It has often and confidently been asserted, that man's origin can never be known: but ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. —Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: ignorance success confidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge discretion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. —Charles Mackay More about this quote Tags: ignorance wisdom knowledge groups Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. —Don Herold More about this quote Tags: ignorance intelligence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: understanding ignorance intelligence knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most violent element in society is ignorance. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance society violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism. —Sir William Osler More about this quote Tags: ignorance dogma Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: ignorance faults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance. —Samuel Butler More about this quote Tags: ignorance character vanity price arrogance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email