Sri Chinmoy Quotes

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I subscribe to the school that there are no dumb questions.

Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.