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There is no darkness but ignorance.
There is no darkness but ignorance.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night read more
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to read more
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., read more
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of
men is greatly perplexed.
[Lat., Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum maxime hominum vita
vexatur.]
