I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
When we're dealing with the people in our family no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
