Sentence examples for self-ignorance from inspiring English sources

Or can autonomy thrive within the prison of self-ignorance?

Two ignorance states for a knowledge agent are identified: (1) non-reflective (or blind) state, i.e. the person does not know of self-ignorance, a case of ignorance of ignorance; and (2) reflective state, i.e. the person knows and recognizes self-ignorance.

By requiring everyone to calculate their giving as a percentage of their income, the I.R.S. could solve the self-ignorance problem.

His is a world of choked-off hopes and fear of freedom; of hollow bonhomie, self-ignorance and sexual dismay; of quiet disappointments leading to noisy betrayals.

The general point about the size of our self-ignorance extends beyond the details of Systems 1 and 2. We're astonishingly susceptible to being influenced – puppeted – by features of our surroundings in ways we don't suspect.

In this category are capriciousness, wantonness, triviality, disintegration, weakness of will, self deception, self-ignorance, mendacity, hypocrisy, indifference.

The path Buddha taught is based upon the principle of universal, unbiased love and the fact that self-grasping ignorance and the biased self-love caused by this ignorance are what lead us to engage in the vices from which all suffering results.

This is what Buddhists mean by "self-grasping ignorance," and Buddhism teaches that anger arises from particular types of self-grasping ignorance.

Al Qaeda's attraction to ignorant Muslims is based on lies and hypocrisy that prey upon their self-righteous ignorance, men and women drawn to al Qaeda are not Muhammad's kind of men and women, and their Islam is not in any way whatsoever Muhammad's Islam.

In Socrates, we see his self-acknowledged ignorance as a virtue.

Must be awful to have to take on that job of saving people from self-inflicted ignorance.