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The less you look to others,the more you find in yourself.What have you found in yourself.
— Ron W. Rathbun
The Man of Power is one who presides—By persuasion. He uses no demeaning words or behavior, does not manipulate others, appeals to the best in everyone, and respects the dignity andagency of all humankind—men, women, boys, and girls.By long-suffering. He waits when necessary and listens to the humblest or youngest person. He is tolerant of the ideas of others and avoids quick judgments and anger. By gentleness. He uses a smile more often than a frown. He is not gruff or loud or frightening; he does not discipline in anger.By meekness. He is not puffed up, does not dominate conversations, and is willing to conform his will to the will of God.By love unfeigned. He does not pretend. He is sincere, giving honest love without reservation even when others are unlovable.By kindness. He practices courtesy and thoughtfulness in little things as well as in the more obvious things. By pure knowledge. He avoids half-truths and seeks to be empathetic. Without hypocrisy. He practices the principles he teaches. He knows he is not always right and is willing to admit his mistakes and say ‘I’m sorry.'Without guile. He is not sly or crafty in his dealings with others, but is honest and authentic when describing his feelings.
— H. Burke Peterson
True honesty is what you are willing to admit to yourself without judgement!
— Pollyanna Darling
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.
— Honoré de Balzac, The Atheist’s Mass
We humans are prone to err, and to err systematically, outrageously, and with utter confidence. We are also prone to hold our mistaken notions dear, protecting and nourishing them like our own children. We defend them at great cost. We surround ourselves with safe people, people who will appreciate our cherished views. We avoid those who suggest that our exalted ideas, our little emperors, have no clothes.
— Valerie Tarico, Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light
You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.
— Anne Holm, I Am David
I get what you're saying, but my hanging with the ladies is mostly for publicity when I'm on tour. I don't sleep with that many girls. Well, not all of them. Okay, I'm trying to behave myself. It's not easy being famous!
— Michelle Sutton, Out of Time
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind
— Napoleon Hill
Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking!
— Jennifer O'Neill, Soul DNA: Your Spiritual Genetic Code Defines Your Purpose
When Life Sucks, Get an awesome blowjob from her.
— Himmilicious, The Clicked Shutterbug.
A positive attitude may not solve all our problems but that is the only option we have if we want to get out of problems.-Subodh Gupta author "Stress Management a holistic approach -5 steps plan".
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
Live your everyday extraordinary!
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Sometimes impossible things are true things.
— Gina Linko, Flower Moon
You are having a bad day? Remember it could always be worse... It could be me having a bad day!
— Mark W. Boyer, Domestic Vigilance: One Nation
Whether you think you can, or think you can't - you're right.
— Henry Ford
It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
— Alexander Den Heijer
Man can choice what to think of.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The future shines so bright, lets be the brick that paves the way to a positive future.
— Stephen Magnus
Reinforce your positive thoughts and Redirect to the substantial energy of your frustration.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
It is through our imperfections that our true beauty shines through.
— Cheryl L. Ilov, Forever Fit and Flexible: Feeling Fabulous at Fifty and Beyond
I am unable to change myself,Can't adopt change so easily.So I just start see things differently
— Vini Dubey
Positive thought + positive action = positive results.
— Gloria Vester, From Raccoon Poop to Pansies: How To Use the Power of Positive Thought Waves to Change Your Life
Positive thoughts are mental vitamins.
— Kevin J. Donaldson
Free ourselves from the fear of being unlike others, unloved people, unattractive, unwanted, undesirable or unworthy. Love the way you're to be better person.
— Rofithah Omar
Do not focus on the problem.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Stay away from negative people, solution aren't the problem, they hate that, they are the problem.
— Werley Nortreus
When you continuously give attention to a positive thought, it becomes a dominant thought. Repeating this thought will become a bigger part of your vibration.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
You can have what you wish in the sacred time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Remember, you are training your mind. You are either training it to look for things to go wrong or you are training it to look for things to go right. Train yourself to think only positive thoughts
— Karon Waddell
With a mighty mind, you can conquer every mountain.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every experience is necessary wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you have confident, courage and strength, you can succeed in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Wondering is positive illusion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Keep your heart free of hate.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the canvas of your life.
— Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure
Everybody Communicate, but few Connect.Why? because finding a common ground to build a connection is a matter of knowledge and perception!
— Lydor Brunice
Treeple - all you need is be-leaf!
— S.J. Cameron, XYLO: A Novel In Three Branches
Followers Everywhere To start with; Facebook : 10K followers !!Instagram : 710 followers !!Twitter : 20K followers !!Followers!! Followers!! And Followers!!Well, who are these followers? Just more than being a crowd of audience, who are they? Ever thought of? And for what purpose are they following you or someone else? Is it because you are a famous personality, a best friend, or you're someone who holds a high status in the society or just because you're simply rich enough to be followed ?Everyone live their life the way they want to. No one is bound to live under certain limitations or boundaries. Every individual have their own freedom in life. Each one of them is unique too. But what holds us different from others is the work we do for ourselves and for our society. Our behaviour, personality, nature, our attitude towards life and our talents hold us apart from others. Some people are really good and some are really worse than you ever thought of. What I'm trying to say is that some are 'legally' good and they may or may not hold a high position in the society and some are 'illegally' good and they may or may not hold a high position in the society. I just want to say that follow people for who they actually are, for the good work they do for themselves and for everyone. And respect them by being their true follower in a true sense. The person whom you follow doesn't need to be a rich or poor. A person should be rich by heart and poor by wealth! Even I'm not someone to be followed, yet I do have a few followers. It's not because I'm some great personality or a renowned writer, but might be because they like my work. And I feel happy for that. And I thank God for blessing me with this wonderful skill of writing. Even I follow many people including some really great personalities for their good work and for their kind way of serving the society and the poor. And I believe that, this is the true way to show respect for them.
— Sujish Kandampully
A splendid sacred season!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Live a healthy life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life can be awful. Life can be ugly.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
God holds the key to every door.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
For every opinion you receive, seek guidance from the Creator.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
My journey has begunand the direction is upwards. I am shooting for the stars and will come back with a shine like never before. I am blessed beyond measure.
— Gerard Johnson
And if you wonder how serious I am when I talk about filling your head with positive thoughts: I only watch one type of movies. The ones with happy endings.
— Petter A. Stordalen, Min historia
The world needs more love and Twitter just figured out a way to send 'hearts all over the world'.
— Germany Kent
Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
— Ben Carson, My Life: Based on the Book Gifted Hands
I am passionate about life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life is a spiritual splendid journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It takes self-discipline and persistence action to achieve the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
We only get to receive what we internally give to ourselves through the programming of our internal representations.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
All too often, we are pleasing the enemy MORE than we are pleasing God by living defeated. Jesus did not die for us to walk around defeated. You have the POWER to turn any situation around that you want to.
— Sandra M. Michelle
Until you try to fly, you will never know how high you can soar.
— George "GM64" Mercado
Divine grace is available for each one of us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Rather than crying & craving for those who left our path during dark moments of our life, lets spend some time to thank them who stood and helped us to pass those dark paths.
— Nehali Lalwani
i am permanentlytannedin the summer of poetry.
— Sanober  Khan, Turquoise Silence
But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.
— Nathan Filer
May you always have angels to walk with you on the right path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If you want to become successful employer tomorrow, work hard on learning and practicing few simple disciplines and positive thoughts as an employee today.
— Ashish Patel
It is your sole responsibility to protect every single one of your days on earth with positive thoughts and beliefs.
The best way to trick yourself into actually feeling these positive feelings, even if you are not feeling too good is to use your memories, fantasies, dreams and desires judiciously.
— Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.
— Jim George
Dare to take chances
—  there is no limit to the opportunities waiting for you.
Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.
— Paul Isaacs
I do not dream, I simply maintain an ever growing list of things I will do and things that I won't.
— Mark Boyer
Physical nutrition is required to survive but you need to be mentally/emotionally healthy to thrive.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
A happy soul in a happy body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Sometimes life's lessons may not be easily labeled; and we may not understand simply because we are too close to the situation (emotionally). Bad things and tragedy strike all around us with no obvious reasons but somewhere in this "the phoenix will rise from the ashes".
— Nehali Lalwani, Her Story
There is no easy way to the journey of life. Those who follow the easy road cannot fully appreciate life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You can have all your heart's desires.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
Hope is affirmation of positive thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Wings of Hope: Survivor
Don’t react while you are upset because at that time your reaction will be based on negative emotions
—  but intuitive and positive thoughts flow when you are calm.
Talk without action is like a car without petrol. Positive talk coupled with decisive action can make a major difference in not only your life but as well as of those around you
— Katlego Semusa
You must keep looking on the bright side, because you won't find anything in the dark.
— Zack W. Van
we all do think of doing something in life;be it significant or not, do something positive.If you pursue great footsteps, you leave great footprints
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
Unlock your energy with your inner enthusiasm paving way on the road towards accomplishing your goals. Switch on daily your steadfast eagerness. Start your day with a joyful heart and a positive spirit.
— Angelica Hopes, Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
The limits of your life are just creations of your own self; and in a fantasy world, even the lies become true... Only you can push your limits! Only you know what you think or imagine those limits are. No one can get inside your head to see where you've set your barriers.Analyze your internal conversation: Do you use limiting thoughts? When you think of a dream, do you kill it immediately? Is your mind set in the “tell me all the reasons why I CAN NOT” mode?If so, prepare to change your programming, and accept that THERE ARE NO LIMITS TO WHAT YOU CAN ACHIEVE. ONLY THOSE YOU IMPOSE YOURSELF…To limit yourself only builds walls and barriers where there should be none! Where there are none! The more open and barrier-free your mind is, the greater the chance of achieving what you want.So, test your supposed limits over and over and over again! Tools, people, resources… Everything will come your way, once you start trying, challenging and testing your self-imposed limits.Replace those negative limiting thoughts with positive thoughts of possibility, believe and faith.Turn on the light of your mind, and kill the darkness!
— Mauricio Chaves Mesén, YES! TO SUCCESS
The P's of life: Positive, Passionate and Persistent life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Your thoughts create your world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Life gets easier when you stop caring and expecting things to get better!
— Nehali Lalwani
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
— Louise L. Hay
In our environment,we have answers for almost every question we have,it depends on how sincerely we seek them.
— Deeksha Mittal
What you decide to be is what you will begin to see.
— Franklin Gillette
Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes.
— SupaNova Slom, The Remedy: The Five-Week Power Plan to Detox Your System, Combat the Fat, and Rebuild Your Mind and Body
Life is full of issues no matter what social status you enjoy in society, only the nature of issue would be different. You solve one issue, other would come and they would be keep on coming till you are alive. This is a reality and nobody can escape from this truth.-Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan".
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying and then your mind gives you the false impression that the problem is very big and mind than start multiplying your worries without any actual basis and you see no way of coming out of it. To come out of the problems you need to focus on solutions. -Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan".
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so.
— Hamlet
Majority of people who are easily stressed are the one's who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions. - Subodh Gupta, author, "Stress Management A Holistic Approach - 5 Steps Plan
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
I have come, more and more, to believe that the way we are in the world actually has an impact on the world. When we are respectful, joyous, grateful, engaged, the world responds to that in concrete ways. When we are angry and resentful, or selfish or bitter, things sour around us.
— Alan S. Kesselheim, Let Them Paddle: Coming of Age on the Water
Nothing happens on its own, you have to make things happen. If you really want to come out of your stressful situation than you need to take action. Unless you stand up for yourself and take action, the problem is not going to get away. Let fear of failure shouldn't stop you from taking action.-Subodh Gupta, author "Stress Management A holistic approach-5 Steps Plan".
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything is changing, so no matter what problem or issue you are having inyour life at the moment, it would also change sooner or later but of course you need to take positive action too.-Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan".
— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach
It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
It is easier to hold on to a dream than it is to let it go.
— Tanja Kobasic
The secret of success is this all-powerful creative energy within, which human beings often sleep over throughout their entire lives.
— Sakshi Chetana, How to be Successful: Powerful Lessons for Success
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
— G.K. Chesterton
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
— Benjamin Franklin
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
— Ernest Hemingway
If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
— Victor Cousin, Œuvres de Victor Cousin: Introduction L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de L'Histoire de La Philosophie. Cours de Philosophie Sur Le Fondemen
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
— Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
Beware the man of a single book.
— Thomas Aquinas
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
— Kofi Annan
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
— Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.
— David Sedaris
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Protect me from knowing what I don't need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don't know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.
— Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
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, The Sane Society
Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it.
— Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.
— Lisa Shearin, Armed & Magical
Ignorance is a lot like alcohol: the more you have of it, the less you are able to see its effect on you.
— Jay M. Bylsma
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
— Noam Chomsky
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
— Jasper Fforde, The Fourth Bear
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.
— Robert G. Ingersoll, On the Gods and Other Essays
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.
— Gore Vidal, Death Before Bedtime
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
— Eoin Colfer, The Last Guardian
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
— Thomas Fuller
On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.
— Albert Camus
When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
— Warren Buffett
no people can be both ignorant and free.
— Thomas Jefferson
Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stored in memory. No one has ever tried to calculate this ratio, and in fact there exists no technique for doing so; yet without much risk of error I could assume that the memory retains no more than a millionth, a hundred-millionth, in short an utterly infinitesimal bit of the lived life. That fact too is part of the essence of man. If someone could retain in his memory everything he had experienced, if he could at any time call up any fragment of his past, he would be nothing like human beings: neither his loves nor his friendships nor his angers nor his capacity to forgive or avenge would resemble ours.We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much unless a more basic critique precedes it: a critique of human memory as such. For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.
— Milan Kundera
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
— Neil Gaiman, Stardust
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
— Benjamin Franklin
It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.
— Alexei Maxim Russell, Alexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
— Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work
You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being shoved up your asshole every day... The owners of this country know the truth... it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!
— George Carlin
Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.
— Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon
The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.
— Michael   Lewis, Liar's Poker
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
— A.R. Bernard
The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?
— Aldo Leopold
The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance
— Lewis Thomas
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed .
— From the film Kill Your Darlings
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
— Abba Eban
Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.
— Steve Alten, The Loch
I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.
— Jack Whyte, Uther
We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.
— Caitlyn Paige
Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.
— Jeri Smith-Ready, Wicked Game
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
— Sam Harris
Whenever an occasion arose in which she needed an opinion on something in the wider world, she borrowed her husband's. If this had been all there was to her, she wouldn't have bothered anyone, but as is so often the case with such women, she suffered from an incurable case of of pretentiousness. Lacking any internalized values of her own, such people can arrive at a standpoint only by adopting other people's standards or views. The only principle that governs their minds is the question "How do I look?
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
— Ashly Lorenzana
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
— Mignon McLaughlin, Lucky In Love Greeting Card
Your blindness to my downfall,Has gone too far to be a joke,As I stand ablaze before you,And you tell me you smell smoke.
— Erin Hanson
I've demonstrated an impressive resilience in the face of valuable life lessons, and the main thing I seem to have learned from this one is that I am capable of learning nothing from almost any experience, no matter how profound.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hocus Pocus
I don't know." That was typical Sajaki; like all the genuinely clever people Sylveste had met he knew better than to feign understanding where none existed.
— Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions.
— Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
— George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Naive keeps on dreaming of heaven on earth,ignoring the truth that even heavens are at war.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
What are you doing in a fast lane, snail?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
— William Osler
Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.
— Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
— B.F. Skinner
Do you really think that God in his heaven with all the angels, there from the beginning of time and looking towards the day of judgement day, really looks down on all the world and see's you and little harry and says 'whatever you choose to do is my will?' "Yes i do." she says uncertainly.
— Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen
On the Kite, the situation was being 'workshopped'. This is the means by which people who don't know anything get together to pool their ignorance.
— Terry Pratchett, The Last Hero
No emphaty when you had blinders on.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
My book was not written in hate for Christians or disdain for the principles often associated with Jesus Christ—instead it was inspired by the ignorance that faith and religion often breed in humanity
—  the type of ignorance that allows people to self-identify as Christians (or any other religion) without having first researched the Holy Scriptures themselves in order to properly evaluate the religion’s veracity or falsity.
And where there is ignorance, there is also want of learning and instruction in essentials.
— Epictetus, Discourses and Selected Writings
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.Now, the people of this land know about dragons because their leaders have warned them about them. They tell stories about cruel dragons with razor teeth and fiery breath. They recount legends of dragons hunting by night on silent wings. In short, the leaders make sure that the people believe in all the qualities of dragons, including that key quality of existence. And then they control the people — when they need to — with their fear of dragons. The people pay a dragon-slaying tax … everyone stays indoors after dark to avoid being snatched by swooping claws … and nobody ever strays out of bounds for fear of being eaten well and tru
— David Whiteland, Book of Pages
Ignorance was bliss.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) but not to the real suffering involved. They do so by deliberately withholding information and by cynically presenting us with idealized images of happy animals in beautiful landscapes, scenes of bucolic happiness that do not correspond to anything in the real world. The animals involved suffer agony because of our ignorance. The least we owe them is to lessen that ignorance.
— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.
— Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Bhutan does seem a bit unreal at times. Hardly anybody in the U.S. knows where it is. I have friends who still think the entire country is a figment of my imagination. When I was getting ready to move there, and I told people I was going to work in Bhutan, they'd inevitably ask, "Where's Butane?"It is near Africa," I'd answer, to throw them off the trail. "It's where all the disposable lighters come from."They'd nod in understanding.
— Linda Leaming, Married to Bhutan
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
— James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance, on the Religious Rights of Man: Written in 1784-85
Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
The risks of liberty we must let everyone take
—  but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.
Yes, please leave us, the mere presence of beings like yourselves is intensely painful to us.
— Gene L. Coon
There is a secret earth gyrm, a place where the unbelievable, the unthinkable, the terrible, takes place every day. A place hidden by the veils of ignorance and cowardice and fear. On occasions we glimpse it, when its hidden terrors fall through that veil into plain sight, but mostly we just dismiss it as something else, somewhere else, to be dealt with by someone else. Long ago I found the veil and lifted it. And knowing as I do what is behind, what those behind it get away with, with impunity ... I cannot grow old basking on the bank of some safe-haven, no.
— Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
— Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
— Zbigniew Brzeziński
He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.
— Terry Pratchett, Diggers
How many consuming fires can there be in the words: freedom, peace and democracy and how easy they can be extinguished by ignorance, stupidity and arrogance?
— Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
Martha said, "Do you have any idea of the kind of surprise your brothers are in for sooner or later? Or are you doing it on purpose?"  Cord put his hat on and pulled it low, hiding his eyes. "Grown man walks around with his eyes shut tight, he shouldn't be surprised if he bumps into something he didn't see. You aren't trying to convince anybody of anything they don't want to believe." Martha laughed. "You win. I just hope I'm there when the blind men hit the wall.
— Ellen O'Connell, Eyes of Silver, Eyes of Gold
Prehistory of mankind is way too horrible to be remembered.But if we choose to ignore it, then we'll be doomed to repeat it.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.
— Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians
Now then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than you do, who live in a pool, and more than I do, who live in a forest. For they have been travelers all over the world, and know every part of it.""There's more of the world than Oz," declared the crab, in a stubborn voice."That is true," said Dorothy; "but I used to live in Kansas, in the United States, and I've been to California and to Australia--and so has Uncle Henry.""For my part," added the Shaggy Man, "I've been to Mexico and Boston and many other foreign countries.""And I," said the Wizard, "have been to Europe and Ireland.""So you see," continued the zebra, addressing the crab, "here are people of real consequence, who know what they are talking about.
— L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz
Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities.
— Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, L'Ève Future
And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
— Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat
To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit
—  he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else.
I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
— Pamela Anderson
It was a tribute to Raphael that lesser artists wanted to copy his work, but this… this was a travesty. The fresco consisted of Galatea’s apotheosis, wherein she is surrounded by mythical creatures. A beautiful scene, with all the potential in the world, but very poorly executed here. Galatea herself looked vapid and empty. The rest of the painting indicated pure ignorance on the part of the painter. I shook my head in confusion. The giant Polyphemus was depicted with two normal eyes, when clearly he ought to have but one. Triton, for his horn, was using not a shell but an actual trumpet of brass. I nearly laughed aloud at that observation; would not such an instrument be completely destroyed by seawater? Who the devil had painted this monstrosity?
— Kelsey Brickl, Paint
Definition of a zombie
—  full spectrum ignorance.
He would never be that way again. He would never have the power of that specific kind of not-knowing.
— Catherine Lacey, The Answers
Distractions can be disastrous if they are allowed, they will steal precious time and energy from most important things that matters in life.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
WE IGNORED TRUTHS FOR TEMPORARY HAPPINESS.
— Bunny Naidu
There have always been ignorant people, but they haven't always had college degrees to make them unaware of their ignorance. Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
— Thomas Sowell
Koch believed that what the famed economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" was so critical to the health of the capitalist system that empathy was an obstacle to acceptance of the world that must be brought into being.
— Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
The journey from Ignorance to Awareness is nothing but perceptual bliss to actual bliss
— Harrish Sairaman
If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.
— Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity
Ignorance is relatively easy to overcome
—  stupidity is much harder.
To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Not know it was hard
— knowing it was harder
Not knowing it was hard
—  knowing it was harder.
We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How safe and secure is the internet?Well.....Would you leave all your worldly belongings on the road and expect them to be there when you came back seven years later?
— Anthony T. Hincks
In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Ignorance is relatively easy to cure
—  stupidity is much harder.
Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of progress of developing communities.
— Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission
Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra,” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.
— Kris Noel, Prime
Love doesn't need a reply... ignorance and is it a romantic image?
— Deyth Banger, Deep Legend
Ignoring a question is as equivalent to ignoring a person.
— Bharath Mamidoju
If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.
— Ahmed Mostafa
Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we use the nervous ystem in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction.
— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.
— Eric Jerome Dickey, Finding Gideon
Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction
— Simón Bolívar
Problems often become worse if incompetent people try to solve them.
— Eraldo Banovac
When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted.
— Criss Jami
There are no experts, only varying degrees of ignorance
— Amit Trivedi, Riding The Roller Coaster: Lessons from financial market cycles we repeatedly forget
Maybe it’s a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Power of productivity is not in working but relaxing
— Talees Rizvi
…have you always been a jackass or is that something you’ve just recently acquired at the ‘I Want to be a Junior Jackass’ store? -Weasel to Army Lieutenant
— Ray Palla, H: Infidels of Oil
Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.
— D. Allen Miller, Scarlet Tears
To label myself is similar to thinking that I can come up with a single phrase to explain the universe.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Do what helps others. Refrain from harming others. Transcend your own ignorance, clinging, hate, fear and delusion. This and only this is the dispensation of all the Buddhas.
— Paul R. Fleischman
Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself
— Sunday Adelaja
Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless
— Sunday Adelaja
Lot of people do not realize that God cares for them and is able to fulfill His promises
— Sunday Adelaja
Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.
— Jeffrey Fry
At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
[There's] a number of questionable characters whose goal is clearly not to disseminate information, but to prolong their pathetic reign by controlling people through a highly-organized and continued engineering of ignorance.
— Marc Vouillot
I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
For many things were shown,Recorded and written down.But what is God to do,When His Word you do renounce?
— Kari L. Greenaway, There is a God
Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
— M.J. Carter, The Strangler Vine
Different skin color and same blood color is something that most people don't know, they don't know because arrogance make them racist and ignorant.
— Werley Nortreus, Best Quotes of Werley Nortreus