Quotes with self-ignorance

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  • Aldous Huxley If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ramana Maharshi If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.
    Ramana Maharshi
    Indian Hindu mystic and guru (1879 - 1950)
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  • Bill Hybels If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Bell Hooks If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Carl Bernstein If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • George Sheehan If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
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  • Brian Tracy If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Anatole France Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • John Tillotson Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • George Orwell Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Kofi Annan 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
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Horace Mann Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bill Richardson Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Thucydides Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • Oscar Wilde Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Frank Dane Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Robert Browning Ignorance is not innocence, but sin.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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