
“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
Guru Nanak quotes
“The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.”
Book of Humorous Quotations, ed. Connie Robertson (1998), page 83
“He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”
Source: Catch-22
Source: Atma Bodha (1987), p. 7: Quote nr. 4.
“When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self.”
65 : Ignorance Personified, p. 111.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Context: When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self.
Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
“If we were to hang the last capitalist, another would appear to sell us the rope.”
A variant of the above misquote, sometimes also attributed to Lenin. This gained popularity during the glasnost era when black market activity was at its most visible in the USSR; meant to show the profit motive was human nature and cannot be eradicated.
Misattributed