So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.[Les esprits médiocres condamnent d’ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée.]
People who had no real idea why they were doing so congregated to listen to other people who also did not know anything, on the basis that ignorance shared is ignorance doubled.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Obstinacy and heat of opinion is the surest proof of stupidity.[L’obstination et ardeur d’opinion, est la plus seure preuue de bestise.]
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.[N’est rien creu si fermement, que ce qu’on sçait le moins.]
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
No one human being knows the full truth about another human being.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity.
