"Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation."

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Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1913). “Papers of a Pariah”

Henepola Gunaratana

#Learning Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.”
“In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.”
“The family gave me everything, every advantage and just poured love on me. I always had more confidence than I should have. I felt like I could do anything because that was the way I was raised. I was an only child.”

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“when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.”
“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.”
“The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you...”
“One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.”
“My granddaddy on my momma's side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine's Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year.”

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