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Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
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
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.
He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- The Buddha
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike;
there is but one step from envy to hate.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not the man who has too little,
but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy,
to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter,
and to lead but not manipulate.
- William Arthur Ward
Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus
Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
The jealous are troublesome to others,
but a torment to themselves.
- William Penn
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope.
- Josh Billings
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato
If thou wilt make a man happy,
add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Find your balance and stand with it.
Find your song and sing it out.
Find your cadence and let it appear like a dance.
Find the questions that only you know how to ask and
The answers that you are content to not know.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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