The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
Blaise Pascal
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the... →
Patanjali
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn
My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness -... →
Katy Perry
Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
Irene Peter
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's... →
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The prime goal of censorship is to promote ignorance, whether it is done via lying and bowdlerized school texts or by attacking individual books.
Felice Picano
If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become... →
Charlie Pierce