Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth.

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

The only thing worse than human ignorance is human pride in that ignorance.

Those who lack all idea that it is possible to be wrong can learn nothing except know-how.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.

He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be and do - and that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing.

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.