Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous.

The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness

People dont pay attention until they have to

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

We are not responsible for what we do; we are ignorant of our acts until we accomplish them.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?