#oran

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. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#ignorance #intelligence #narrow-mindedness #opinions #reality

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #learning #ongoing-education

Ever since her conversion [Barbara] had met sophisticated women who, on the subject of Catholicism, sneered like French village atheists, and expected to be excused from normal good manners, let alone intelligence, on this one subject. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#ignorance #intolerance #intelligence

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life

When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ignorance #life #life

الناس لا يكلفون انفسهم عناءاً كبيراً في تصوير الحياة وتخيلها، وهم يبدون استعداداً مدهشاً لتصديق ما لا يجوز تصديقه، وتصور مالا ينبغي تصوره، وكأنما آلو على أنفسهم ألا يبذلوا جهداً، وألا يحملوا أنفسهم مشقة أو عناء، والكثرة العظمى من الناس في جهل مطبق بحقائق الحياة، ومع ذلك فهم راضون عن أنفسهم مدافعون عن جهالاتهم وأوهامهم، وإن بعضهم ليتحمس للحياة ويضحي بنفسه في سبيلها، وآية ذلك إن جهالة الجاهل جزء من شخصيته، فهو يجد في الدفاع عنها دفاعاً عن نفسه وعن حياته. ↗

— علي مصطفى مشرفة

#life #people #life

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#ignorance #narrowness #selfishness #life

life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid ↗

— John Wayne

#knowledge #stupidity #wisdom #life

I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes. ↗

— Jack Whyte

#life

Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life #our-town #simon-stimson #time #life