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ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
ignorance reality expectations
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
ignorance
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ...
ignorance long curiosity
My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together. Alan Alda
ignorance long-ago giving
For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven. Aiden Wilson Tozer
tasks advertising easy
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
tasks generations embrace
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. Chinua Achebe
tasks reader
As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem. Edward Hirsch
tasks artistic solutions
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen
tasks may architecture
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks remains has-beens
A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains. Madeleine Albright
tasks
Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think. Michael Porter
tasks answers might
I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me. Carl Jung
tasks abstract modernization
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task. Dmitry Medvedev
lions
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.
lions hunters historian
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
lions may
I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion. August Wilson
lions assuming caught
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard. Edgar Rice Burroughs
lions might tabloids
The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you. David Mellor
lions said
It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him. Charles Kingsley
lions looks mouths
Never look a gift lion in the mouth. Daniel Handler
lions
Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.
lions scripture heard
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.