Sri Aurobindo Quotes

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

Uncertainty means that we do not have a complete description of the world which we fully believe to be true.

Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

How little do the wisest among us know of that which is so important to us all.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Facts are stubborn things, but, as some one has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Well, what we know Is not what they tell us We're not ignorant, I mean it, And they just cannot touch us Through the powers of the Most-High We keep on surfacin' Thru the powers of the Most-High We keep on survivin'.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

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.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost ... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well.

One fool will deny more truth in half an hour than a wise man can prove in seven years.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.