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Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is it ignorance or apathy?
Hey, I don't know and I don't care.
- Jimmy Buffett
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
We may have found a cure for most evils;
but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
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The price of apathy towards public affairs
is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
- Horace Greeley
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
There can be no transforming of darkness into light
and of apathy into movement without emotion.
- Carl Jung
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch
with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence;
then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
- Elbert Hubbard
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
- Pema Chodron
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be - don't try to become.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
- John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
Envy comes from people's ignorance of,
or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
- Jean Vanier
Misunderstanding arising from ignorance breeds fear,
and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
- Lester B. Pearson
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
There comes a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance,
that imitation is suicide,
that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the Buddhas of all the ages have been
telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words, be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- Osho
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
Life is an organic whole. The basic problems of the people -
poverty, ignorance, disease and civic inertia - interlock.
To address one problem, we must address all.
Hence our emphasis on an integrated program
of livelihood, education, health and self-government.
- Jimmy Yen
Blinding ignorance does mislead us.
Oh Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
- Leonardo da Vinci
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot
My joy is the golden sunset
giving thanks for another day.
Gratitude itself is a source of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -
look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus
could be intended for enjoyment.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.
Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.
- Quran 17:26
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Those who give, hoping to be rewarded with honor,
are not giving, they are bargaining.
- Philo
Remember that the happiest people
are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
Pity may represent little more
than the impersonal concern
which prompts the mailing of a check,
but true sympathy is the personal concern
which demands the giving of one's soul.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is ever giving of Itself.
We must receive, utilize and extend the gift.
Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes
belonging to all people.
- Ernest Holmes
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Today, I say yes to forgiving.
I commit to being for-giving love
and for-giving compassion in all areas of my life.
- Sheri Rosenthal
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it
is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
- William Arthur Ward
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl
is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
- Albert Einstein
I hate the giving of the hand
unless the whole man accompanies it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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