“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
Sacha Guitry (1885–1957) French dramatist and playwright
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”
— Nanak
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