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Isn’t it the case that ever since the human race came into being, it is from this ignorance that all our errors and all our misfortunes have arisen?
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.
Andrew Murray • Humility & Absolute Surrender
They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them. 29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what the end would be.
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The most basic defilements are the triad of greed, aversion, and delusion. Greed (lobha) is self-centered desire: the desire for pleasure and possessions, the drive for survival, the urge to bolster the sense of ego with power, status, and prestige. Aversion (dosa) signifies the response of negation, expressed as rejection, irritation,
... See moreBhikkhu Bodhi • The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering
Failing to prioritize stupidity over malice causes things like paranoia. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world. This is an incredibly self-centered approach to life. In reality, for every act of malice, there is almost certainly far more ignorance, stupidity, and laziness.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
This ignorance of our belonging to the sacredness of life is recognized as the root of suffering.
Jonni Pollard • The Golden Sequence: A Manual for Reclaiming Our Humanity
God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn’t make ignorance a virtue.
Andy Stanley • Deep and Wide
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr. • Strength to Love
The unwholesome roots are the three defilements we already mentioned—greed, aversion, and delusion. Any action originating from these is an unwholesome kamma. The three wholesome roots are their opposites, expressed negatively in the old Indian fashion as non-greed (alobha), non-aversion (adosa), and non-delusion (amoha). Though these are
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