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May you find great value in these quotes by Jimmy Buffett.
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
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
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
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
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
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
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
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
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
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing you do for a child is ever wasted.
- Garrison Keillor
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water,
yet nothing can resist it.
- Lao Tzu
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Tao abides in non-action,
Yet nothing is left undone.
- Lao Tzu
A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing,
when in effect he knows nothing.
- Carlos Castaneda
We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth
than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
- Horace
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
To know everything is to know nothing,
but to know nothing is to know everything.
- Confucius
Know nothing. For to know nothing is to know everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River of Life just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
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