Dalai Lama Quotes About Ignorance

• Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Mistake, Ignorance

• Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we tend to be slaves to powerful emotions like anger, hatred and attachment that are based on misconceived projections about people and things. We need to find ways of reducing these emotions by eliminating the ignorance that underlies them and applying opposing forces.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Ignorance, Happy Life

• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Peace, Pain

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

• All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

• Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Karma, Peace

• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Believe, Ignorance

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

• Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the human brain with knowledge, but no one seems to care about filling the human heart with compassion. This is what the real role of religion is.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Real, Heart

• Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Darkness

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2009). “Becoming Enlightened”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Education, Confidence

• Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

• In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Buddhism, Self

• As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Buddhism

• Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Hatred, Realization

• Consciousness will always be present, though a particular
  consciousness may cease. For example, the particular tactile
  consciousness that is present within this human body will cease when
  the body comes to an end. Likewise, consciousnesses that are
  influenced by ignorance, by anger or by attachment, these too will
  cease. But the basic, ultimate, innermost subtle consciousness will
  always remain. It has no beginning, and it will have not end.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Attachment, Body

• Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Light, Roots

• Because past environmental destruction was the result of ignorance, we can easily forgive it. Today, we are better informed. Therefore, it's essential that we make an ethical examination of what we have inherited, what we are responsible for, and what we will pass on to coming generations. Ours is clearly a pivotal generation. We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Communication, Ignorance, Past

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