Ramakrishna Quotes

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

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

We need not think alike to love alike.