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Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The WORK
1.Is it true?
2.Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3.How do you react when you think that thought?
4.Who would you be without the thought?
- Byron Katie
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW
is only a small step and quickly taken.
- Mark Twain
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us
what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singe
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I don't know if we each have a destiny,
or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze.
But I, I think maybe it's both.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Assumptions are beliefs that don't know they are beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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