#ignorance

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#majority-view #sanity #sanity

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#self-awareness #wisdom #self-awareness

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#personal-growth #personal-growth

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it. ↗

— David Gemmell

#ignorance #truth #men

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow. ↗

— Frank Dane

#ignorance #never #out #pace #rage

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. ↗

— Guy Debord

#ignorance #periods #quotations #useful

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. ↗

— Thucydides

#ignorance #knowledge #reserved

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#ignorance #mystery #name #omniscient #perfectly

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are. ↗

— Osho

#knowledge #love