Max Heindel Quotes

There is no sin but ignorance.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.