Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
— Frederick Douglass
Restlessness Ignorant Person quotations
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel
If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad.
But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others.
It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.
The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.
Once you have identified with some form of negativity, you do not want to let it go, and on a deeply unconscious level, you do not want positive change. It would threaten your identity as a depressed, angry or hard-done by person. You will then ignore, deny or sabotage the positive in your life. This is a common phenomenon. It is also insane.
Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear.
Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
.. prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.
Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through the body. It is like judging a man by his spacesuit instead of the person inside it.
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.
God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.
God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
"I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said.
"I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.
Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
Do not fret over the ignorant person;
surely they have not had the opportunities which illuminated your path.
Not every person is going to understand you and that's okay.
They have a right to their opinion and you have every right to ignore it.
A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune.
To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one;
but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
I think life is politics anyway. You can't ignore it, but you can go very wrong in politics. You can say what you thought 50 years ago, but maybe you're wrong today. It's something very special, politics. I think you'd better be a good person in life every day - it's much more important.
The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.