In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (seaman) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

— Dada Bhagwan

In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge.

— Dada Bhagwan

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession

— Sunday Adelaja

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

— Sunday Adelaja

It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which that culture is conveyed, and with its necessary concomitant, a constant elevation of the standard of veracity, the end of the evolution of theology will be like its beginning—it will cease to have any relation to ethics. I suppose that, so long as the human mind exists, it will not escape its deep-seated instinct to personify its intellectual conceptions. The science of the present day is as full of this particular form of intellectual shadow-worship as is the science of ignorant ages. The difference is that the philosopher who is worthy of the name knows that his personified hypotheses, such as law, and force, and ether, and the like, are merely useful symbols, while the ignorant and the careless take them for adequate expressions of reality. So, it may be, that the majority of mankind may find the practice of morality made easier by the use of theological symbols. And unless these are converted from symbols into idols, I do not see that science has anything to say to the practice, except to give an occasional warning of its dangers. But, when such symbols are dealt with as real existences, I think the highest duty which is laid upon men of science is to show that these dogmatic idols have no greater value than the fabrications of men's hands, the stocks and the stones, which they have replaced.

— Thomas Henry Huxley

It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any standing in court, that it ought to be handled gently because millions of morons cherish it and thousands of quacks make their livings propagating it—to admit this, as the more fatuous of the reconcilers of science and religion inevitably do, is to abandon a just cause to its enemies, cravenly and without excuse.

— H.L. Mencken

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It sometimes requires ignorance and arrogance to know something for sure.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana